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8843 GI/2025 (1)
REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99
The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 3—Sub-section (i)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 849] NEW DELHI, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2025/PAUSHA 9, 1947
CG-DL-E-31122025-268945
MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 30th December, 2025
G.S.R. 935(E).—Whereas, subsequent to the enactment of the Code on Social Security,
2020 (36 of 2020) (The said Code) by Parliament, the draft Code on Social Security (Central)
Rules, 2020 and the draft Code on Social Security (Employee’s Compensation) (Central)
Rules, 2021 were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3,
Sub-Section (i) vide Notification number G.S.R.713 (E). dated 13th November, 2020 and
G.S.R. 385(E). dated 3rd June, 2021 respectively inviting objections and suggestions as
required under sections 154, 155, 158 and 159 of the said Code;
And whereas, vide notification number S.O. 1730 (E). dated 30th April, 2021, S.O. 2060(E).
dated 3rd May, 2023, S.O. 5319 (E), dated 21st November, 2025 and S.O.5936 (E), dated
19th December, 2025, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3,
Sub-Section (ii), all the provisions of the said Code have been brought into the force.
Now therefore, the following draft rules, which the Central Government proposes to make in
exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 154 read with sub-section (2)
thereof, and sub-section (1) of section 155 read with sub-section (2) thereof and Section 158
and sub-section (1) read with sub-section (2) of section 159 of the Code on Social Security,
2020 (36 of 2020) and read with section 24 of the General Clauses Act, 1897(10 of 1897) in in
supersession of the-
(i) Employees’ State Insurance (Central) Rules, 1950;
(ii) Tribunal (Procedure) Rules, 1997;
(iii) Employees’ Provident Funds Appellate Tribunal (Conditions of Service) Rules, 1997;
(iv) Employment Exchanges (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Rules, 1960;
(v) Maternity Benefit (Mines and Circus) Rules, 1963;
(vi) Payment of Gratuity (Central) Rules, 1972;
(vii) Cine-Workers Welfare Fund Rules, 1984;
(viii) Building and other Constructions Workers’ Welfare Cess Rules, 1998;
(ix) Unorganised Workers’ Social Security Rules, 2009;
(x) Employee’s Compensation Rules, 1924;
(xi) Employee’s Compensation (Transfer of Money) Rules, 1935; and
(xii) Employee’s Compensation (Venue of Proceedings) Rules, 1996;
made by the Central Government in exercise of the powers conferred by the Employees’ State
Insurance Act, 1948(34 of 1948), The Employees’ Provident Fund and Miscellaneous
Provisions Act, 1952(19 of 1952), The Employment Exchanges(Compulsory Notification of
Vacancies) Act, 1959(31 of 1959), The Maternity Benefit Act, 1961(53 of 1961), The Payment
of Gratuity Act, 1972(39 of 1972), The Cine-Workers’ Welfare Fund Act, 1981(33 of 1981),
The Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Cess Act, 1996(28 of 1996), The
Unorganised Workers’ Social Security Act, 2008 (33 of 2008) and The Employee’s
Compensation Act, 1923(8 of 1923), as the case may be, which are repealed by section 164 of
the said Code on Social Security, 2020, except as respects things done or omitted to be done
before such supersession, are hereby notified, as required by section 158, for information of all
persons likely to be affected thereby and the notice is hereby given that the said draft
notification will be taken into consideration after the expiry of a period of forty-five days from
the day on which the copies of the Official Gazette in which this notification is published are
made available to the public;
Objections and suggestions, if any, may be addressed to Shri Supriya Ranjan Datta,
Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Room No.318, Shram Shakti Bhawan,
Rafi Marg, New Delhi-110001 or by e-mail – sr.datta@nic.in and tezveer.singh@nic.in. The
objections and suggestions should be sent in a proforma containing column (1) specifying the
name and address of the person/organization, column (2) specifying the chapter and rule or
sub-rule which is proposed to be modified, column (3) specifying the revised rule or sub-rule
proposed to be substituted and column (4) reasons therefor;
Objections and suggestions, which may be received from any person with respect to the
said draft rules before expiry of the period specified above, will be considered by the Central
Government.
Draft Rules
CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY
1. Short title, extent and commencement.– (1) These rules may be called the Code on Social
Security (Central) Rules, 2025.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. Definitions.– (1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires, —
(a) “agency” means any corporation, body or institution, established under an Act of Parliament
or central public sector undertaking or special purpose vehicle as notified by the Central
Government;
(b) “appeal” means an appeal preferred under sub-section (1) of section 23 or sub-section (1)
of section 99 or sub-section (1) of section 105, as the case may be;
(c) "Appellate authority" means in Central sphere, the Central Government or the authority
specified by the Central Government under sub-section (8) of section 56 or in State sphere, an
officer, senior in rank to the Assessing Officer for the purposes of section 105, appointed by
the State Government, as the case may be;
(d) “Assessing Officer” means a gazetted officer of a State Government or an officer of a local
authority holding an equivalent post to a gazetted officer of the State Government appointed
by such State Government for assessment of cess under Chapter VIII of the Code;
(e) “Authorised Officer for Employees’ Compensation” means any officer whom the State
Government may designate either generally or in respect of any area or class of areas, for the
purpose of performing the functions assigned by these rules to the Authorised Officers;
(f) “authority” means the Central Government or the authority specified by the Central
Government for the purpose of sub-section (3) of section 72;
(g) “average daily wages during a contribution period” under Chapter IV of the Code in respect
of an employee, means the aggregate amount of wages payable to him during that period
divided by the number of days for which such wages were payable;
(h) “average daily wages during a wage period” under Chapter IV of the Code means —
(i) in respect of an employee who is employed on time-rate basis, the amount of wage which
would have been payable to him for the complete wage period had he worked on all the working
days in that wage period, divided by 26 if he is monthly rated, 13 if he is fortnightly rated, 6 if
he is weekly rated and 1 if he is daily rated;
(ii) in respect of an employee employed on any other basis, the amount of wages earned
during the complete wage period in the contribution period divided by the number of days in
full or part for which he has worked for wages in that wage period:
Provided that where an employee receives wages without working on any day during
such wage period, he shall be deemed to have worked for 26, 13, 6 or 1 day or days if the wage
period be a month, a fortnight, a week or a day respectively.
Explanation. — Where any night shift continues beyond midnight, the period of the night shift
after midnight shall be counted for reckoning the day worked as part of the day preceding;
(i) “benefit period” means the period not exceeding six consecutive months corresponding to
the contribution period, as specified in the regulations made under section 157;
(j) “career centre (central)” means that career centre as notified by the Central Government;
(k) “career centre (regional)”, throughout India, except the Union territory of Chandigarh,
means the career centre as notified by the respective State Government or the Administration
of the Union territory as having jurisdiction –
(i) over the area in which the establishments concerned are situated; or
(ii) over specified classes or categories of establishments concerned or vacancies;
(l) “career centre (regional) in the Union territory of Chandigarh” means the career centre
established either by the Union territory Administration of Chandigarh or by the State
Government of Punjab or Haryana, as the case may be, notified by the respective States as
having jurisdiction over specified classes or categories of establishments or vacancies:
Provided that the career centres established by the State Government of Punjab or Haryana
shall not have jurisdiction over—
(i) the public sector offices or establishments other than those belonging to the
respective States; and
(ii) private sector establishments;
(m) “cess collector” means an officer appointed by the State Government for collection of cess
under the Code;
(n) “chairperson” means the chairperson of the Corporation, the Central Board, the National
Social Security Board, the State Unorganised Workers’ Social Security Board, the Standing
Committee, the Medical Benefit Committee or the Executive Committee, as the case may be;
(o) “chartered engineer” means a person having an engineering degree and the corporate
membership of the Institute of Engineers India;
(p) “Code” means the Code on Social Security, 2020 (36 of 2020);
(q) “competent authority” means an authority appointed under section 91 of the Code for the
purpose of Chapter VII of the Code by the State Government;
(r) “contribution period” means the period not exceeding six consecutive months, as specified
in the regulations made under section 157;
(s) “electronically” means any information submitted by