law: Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966
  37.Application of the industrial Employment
  
  (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 and the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 .- 
  (1) The provisions of the Industrial
  
  Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946(20 of 1946) shall apply to every
  
  industrial premises wherein fifty or more persons are employed or were employed
  
  on any one day of t he preceding twelve months as if such industrial premises were
  
  an industrial establishment to which that Act has been applied by a
  
  notification under sub-section (3) of section 1 thereof, and as if the employee
  
  in the said premises were a workman within the meaning of that Act.
  (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), the State Government
  
  may, after giving not less than two months' notice of its intention so to do,
  
  by notification in the Official Gazette, apply all or any of the provisions of
  
  the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946(20 of 1946), to any
  
  industrial premises wherein less than fifty employees are employed or were
  
  employed on any one day of the preceding twelve months as if such industrial
  
  premises were an industrial establishment to which that Act has been applied by
  
  a notification under sub-section (3) of section 1 thereof, and as if the
  
  employee in the said premises were a workman within the meaning of that Act.
  (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in the maternity Benefit Act, 1961(53 of
  
  1961), the provisions of that Act shall apply to every establishment as if such
  
  establishment were an establishment to which that Act has been applied by a
  
  notification under sub-section (1) of section 2 thereof:
  
  Provided that the said Act shall, in its application to a home worker,
  
  apply subject to the following modifications, namely:--
  (a) in section 5, in the Explanation to
  
  sub-section (1), the words "or one rupee a day, whichever is higher"
  
  shall be omitted; and
  (b) sections 8 and 10 shall be omitted