Rule 127. Site Appraisal Committee under sub-section (1) of section 83

(1) The State Government may, for advising it to consider applications for grant of permission for the initial location of a factory involving hazardous process or for the expansion of any such factory, appoint a site appraisal committee under the Chairmanship of Labour Commissioner, comprising of,-(a) Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator;

(b) a representative of Director of Industries;

(c) a representative of State Pollution Control Board;

(d) a representative of Department of Environment, Uttar Pradesh;

(e) an officer nominated by Director General of Fire Services

(f) representative of the Department of Meteorology, Uttar Pradesh;

(g) an expert in the field of occupational health;

(h) a representative of the Housing and Town planning Department of the State Government; and

(i) not more than five other members who may be co-opted by the State Government, who shall be,-

(i) a scientist having specialised knowledge of the hazardous process which will be involved in the factory;

(ii) a representative of local authority within whose jurisdiction the factory is to be established; and

(iii) not more than three other persons as deemed fit by the State Government.

(2) The Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator shall be Member-Secretary of the said Committee.

(3) No member unless required to do so by a Court of law shall disclose otherwise than in connection with the purpose of the Code, at any time any information relating to manufacturing or commercial business or any working process which may come to his knowledge during his tenure as a member on the Committee.

(4) Applications for appraisal of sites in respect of the factories covered under section 2 (1)(za) of the Code shall be submitted to the Chairman of the Committee along with 15 copies in Form-49. The Committee may dispense with the furnishing of the information on any particular item in the application under consideration.

(5) Where any of the process relates to a factory owned or controlled by the Central Government or to a Corporation or a Company owned or controlled by the Central Government, the State Government shall co-opt in the Site Appraisal Committee, a representative nominated by the Central Government, as a member of that committee.

(6) The Site Appraisal Committee shall have power to call for any information from the person making an application for the establishment or expansion of a factory involving a hazardous process.