Judgment

Javed Iqbal Wani, J.

MA 7/2021(CM 2776/2021) is segregated from these bunch of appeals and order passed separately.

1. The instant appeals have been filed by the appellants under Section 82 of the Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948 (for brevity ‘the Act’) against the orders (for brevity ‘impugned orders’) passed by the Industrial Tribunal/Labour Court, Jammu (for brevity ‘Insurance Court’) in their petitions filed b y the appellants under Section 75 (g) of the Act.

2. The appeals are taken up for final disposal together with the consent of counsel for the parties, in that, common issues /questions are being raised therein these appeals.

3. Before adverting to the grounds of challenge urged by the appellants in the instant appeals, it would be appropriate and advantageous to refer hereunder to various provisions of the Act being relevant herein:-

4. Sub-section 3 of Section 1 of the Act, provides as under:-

(3) It shall come into force on such date or dates as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, and different dates may be a