Disabled Persons (Employment and Rehabilitation) Ordinance, 1981

From: 1981-12-29 - To: 0000-00-00 An Ordinance to provide for the employment, rehabilitation and welfare of disabled persons. WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the employment, rehabilitation and welfare of disabled persons and for matters connected therewith. AND WHEREAS the President is satisfied that circumstances exist which render it necessary to make immediate action; NOW, THEREFORE, in pursuance of the Proclamation of the fifth day of July, 1977, read with the Provisional Constitution Order, 1981 (C.M.L.A Order No.1 of 1981), and in exercise of all powers enabling him in that behalf, the President is pleased to make and promulgate the following Ordinance:- 1. Short title, extent and commencement.– (1) This Ordinance may be called the Disabled Persons (Employment and Rehabilitation) Ordinance, 1981. (2) It extends to [2][whole] of [3][the Punjab]. (3) It shall come into force on such day as the [4][Government] may, by notification in the official Gazette, appoint. 2. Definitions.– In this Ordinance, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,– [5][(a) “Chairman” means the Chairman of the Provincial Council;] (b) “commercial establishment” and “industrial establishment” shall have the same meaning as in the West Pakistan Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance, 1968 (W.P. Ordinance No. VI of 1968); (c) “disabled person” means a person who, on account of injury, disease or congenital deformity, is handicapped for undertaking any gainful profession or employment in order to earn his livelihood, and includes a person who is blind, deaf, physically handicapped or mentally retarded; (d) “disease” includes the physical or mental condition arising from the imperfect development of any organ; (e) “employee” means a regular or whole-time employee whether employed on daily, weekly or monthly basis, and includes an apprentice; (f) “establishment” means a Government establishment, a commercial establishment or an industrial establishment, in which the number of workers employed at any time during a year is not less than one hundred; (g) “Fund” means the Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons Fund established under section 17;…