law: Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 
  
  18.Constitution of State Welfare Boards.- 
  (1) Every State Government shall, with effect
  
  from such date as it may, by notification, appoint, constitute a Board to be
  
  known as the.....(name of the State) Building and Other Construction Workers'
  
  Welfare Board to exercise the powers conferred on, and perform the functions
  
  assigned to, it under this Act.
  (2) The Board shall be a body corporate by the name aforesaid, having perpetual
  
  succession and a common seal and shall by the said name sue and be sued.
  (3) The Board shall consist of a chairperson, a person to be nominated by the
  
  Central Government and such number of other members, not exceeding fifteen, as
  
  may be appointed to it by the State Government;
  
  Provided that the Board shall include an equal number of members
  
  representing the State Government, the employers and the building workers and
  
  that at least one member of the Board shall be a woman.
  (4) The terms and conditions of appointment and the salaries and other
  
  allowances payable to the chairperson and the other members of the Board ,and
  
  the manner of filling of casual vacancies of the members of the Boards, shall
  
  be such as may be prescribed.