Contents of the OSH Rules (Uttar Pradesh)

The Uttar Pradesh Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Rules, 2026

Rule 110. Limit with regard to the rejection of beedis o cigars under clause (e) of sub-section (4) of section 74

Chapter IX — Special Provisions for Contract Labour Inter-state Migrant Workers, Audio- Visual Workers and Beedi and Cigar WorkersPart IV — Beedi and Cigar WorkersMade under The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020Notification No. 962/XXXVI-03-2026-1903305, 27 Aug 2026

Official text

(1) No employer or contractor shall ordinarily reject a sub-standard or chhat or otherwise more than five percent of the beedis or cigars, or both, received from a worker including a home-worker.

(2) Where any beedi or cigar is rejected as sub-standard or chaat or otherwise on any ground other than the ground of willful negligence of the worker, the worker shall be paid wages for the beedis or cigars, so rejected at one-half of the rate at which wages are payable to him for the beedis or cigars, or both, which have not been so rejected.

Source: The Uttar Pradesh Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Rules, 2026, Notification No. 962/XXXVI-03-2026-1903305 — Uttar Pradesh Gazette Extraordinary, 27 August 2026, p. 330 of the PDF. Open our copy at p. 330 · official download · all sources

The rules were made in Hindi. The English text is the translation published by order of the Governor under clause (3) of Article 348 of the Constitution, which makes it the authoritative text in English. Rule headings are printed as marginal notes.