Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970
Registers under the Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970
A contract labour register set is unusual in having two keepers. The workmen sit on a contractor's rolls, but the work is done on the principal employer's premises, and the forms are written to be kept from both vantage points. CORGIS models both sides of that arrangement: the same register can be produced as a contractor's record of the workmen it supplies, or as the principal employer's record of the contract labour engaged at its establishment.
That is also why every register here except one can be scoped to a single contractor. A site running four or five contractors gets a clean set per contractor rather than one merged roster nobody can reconcile against a bill. Workmen with no contractor linked to them are left out of contractor-scoped registers entirely — a contract labour register that quietly picks up direct employees is more trouble than no register at all. Form XII, the Register of Contractors, is the exception: it is the establishment's own list of who it has engaged, so it exists on the principal employer's side only.
The eight forms interlock closely. Form XVI's attendance grid is what the wage figures in Form XVII are computed from. Form XXIII carries only the days overtime was actually worked, not a monthly total. Forms XX, XXI and XXII all read from the same wage-deduction and advance ledger, so a fine shown in Form XXI is the same fine that reduced the wage in Form XVII. Form XIII holds the standing list the rest are reconciled against, and it is the one register that names the contractor each workman is engaged through.
Who keeps this register set
Establishments that get work done through a contractor rather than on their own rolls, and the contractors who supply that labour — housekeeping, security, facilities, loading and construction arrangements are the usual cases. This set sits alongside an establishment's own registers rather than replacing them: a shop or office keeps the Shops & Establishments registers for its direct employees and this set for its contract labour, and a registered factory does the same with the Factories Act set.
8 registers CORGIS generates under this Act
Form XVIMuster Roll
Day-by-day attendance for contract workmen — one row per workman, one column per date of the month, marked from the attendance already recorded for that period. Produced either for all contract labour at the establishment or for one contractor's workmen alone.
Form XVIIRegister of Wages
What each contract workman earned for the month and what came off, laid out with the wage components configured for that company. Earnings are computed from the payroll for the period rather than re-keyed, so the wage register and the muster roll it rests on cannot disagree.
Form XIIIRegister of Workmen
The standing list of contract workmen and the particulars held against each one, including the contractor they are engaged through. This is the register the contractor scoping on the rest of the set resolves against, which is why a workman with no contractor linked does not appear in a contractor-scoped register.
Form XXIIIRegister of Overtime
Overtime worked by contract labour, written as one row per day on which overtime was actually recorded rather than a single rolled-up figure for the month. Each row carries the hours worked that day and the amount payable against them.
Form XXRegister of Deductions
Deductions made for damage or loss, read from the wage-deduction ledger. Each entry carries what it was recorded against and the amount, and stays tied to the wage register month in which it was recovered.
Form XXIRegister of Fines
Fines imposed on contract workmen, drawn from the same ledger the deductions register uses. The act or omission recorded against each fine travels with it, so the register reads on its own without cross-referencing the wage sheet.
Form XXIIRegister of Advances
Advances paid to contract workmen and what has been recovered against them — the amount, the type of advance recorded at the time it was paid, and the recovery set against it, all taken from the same ledger as the fines and deductions.
Form XIIRegister of Contractors
The contractors engaged at the establishment, with the particulars held against each. This is the principal employer's register — the contractor has no counterpart to it — and it is generated from the contractor records the company maintains rather than scoped to any one of them.
All eight are generated as Excel workbooks for the month you choose, downloadable one at a time or as a single ZIP organised by Act. Before generating, you pick the side you are producing for — principal employer or contractor — and, where a site runs more than one contractor, which contractor to scope to. Both copies are built from the same attendance and payroll already held, so the principal employer's set and the contractor's set cannot drift apart between them.
Generate these for your own establishment
CORGIS produces each of these as an Excel workbook for the period you choose, computed from the attendance and payroll data already held — individually, or bundled as one ZIP organised by Act.