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It is an act to consolidate and amend the law relating to steam-boilers. Boiler is very
important and risky equipment in the industries so ensuring of safe operation and
maintenance of boiler is mandatory. If any accident takes place due to faulty construction,
bad operation and poor maintenance of boilers a huge destruction regarding life and
properties takes place. Besides these to ensure the product quality, pollution free environment
and conservation of energy smooth and efficient operation of boiler must be ensured. To
ensure the safety of boiler associated life and properties and to maintain smooth production
of industries Boilers Act, Rules and Regulations were promulgated.
An Act to provide for the regular submission of returns of quantities of cotton goods
manufactured and cotton yarn spun in Bangladesh. For the purposes of this Act, unless there
is anything repugnant in the subject or context, "Cotton goods" or goods include all tissues and other articles (except yarn and
thread) woven, knitted or otherwise manufactured wholly or partly from cotton yarn;
"Cotton yarn" or ''yarn" means yarn wholly or partly composed of cotton fibers;
"Mill" means any building or place where cotton goods are woven, knitted or
otherwise manufactured, or where cotton yarn is spun, by machinery moved otherwise
than by manual labor, and includes every part of such building or place;
"Owner", in relation to any mill includes the managing agent or other principal officer
of the mill; and
"Prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act.
The Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, direct that statistics shall be
collected relate to any of the following matters, namely: any matter relating to factories,
any of the following matters so far as they relate to welfare of labor and conditions of
Licensing and regulating trade organizations strictly in accordance with the laid down
criteria to block the emergence of fake trade organizations, which might defeat the
purpose of the law.
To build capacity of trade organizations and to make them truly Business Support
Organizations (BSOs) within the defined parameters of the law.
To review performance of trade organizations on regular basis to ensure that their
resources are being utilized in accordance with the approved aims and objects.
To ensure effective representations of all genders and business sectors at all levels in
trade organizations by effectively monitoring the election process.
To strengthen the dispute resolution mechanism in order to resolve disputes within
trade organizations.
To liaison with SECP, FPCCIs and other trade organizations to make them vibrant for
the healthy trade activities in Trade.
To build capacity of the Human Resource of the office to effectively perform their
duties.
(a) the business, projects and undertakings of the East Pakistan Industrial Development
Corporation including all assets, rights, powers and authorities and privileges, and all
property, movable and immovable, cash and bank balances, reserve funds, investments and
all other interests and rights in, or arising out of, such property of that Corporation subsisting
immediately before the commencement of this Order shall stand transferred to and vested in
the Bangladesh Industrial Development Corporation.
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Promotion of Export
Promotion of Diversification of Export
Generation of employment
Development of Backward and Forward Linkage
Transfer of Technology.
Upgrade of Skill
Development of Management
j. Promotion of International Marketing.
unions in the countrys eight Export Processing Zones (EPZs) which are exempt from the
application of the Labor Act and the Factories Act, thereby excluding workers in the zones
from the coverage of laws governing trade union rights, wages, hours and safety and health
standards. Instead, the government enacted the EPZ Workers Association and Industrial
Relations Act in 2004 (amended in 2009) that allows only for limited freedom of association
in the EPZs. The law initially envisaged the establishment of Workers Associations in the
EPZs. A 2010 amendment renamed the Workers Associations as Workers Welfare
Societies but essentially did not change anything