Labour Commissioner 
The objective of the Act is to regulate the employment of Inter-State Migrant Workmen, to safe guard their interest and to provide for their conditions of service and for matters connected there with.
The provisions of the Act are applicable to every establishment in which five or more Inter-State workmen are employed or were employed on any day of the preceding 12 months and to every contractor, who employs or employed five or more Inter-State Migrant workmen on any day of the preceding 12 months. The Act also provides for registration of the establishments employing Inter-State migrant workmen and license for the contractor.
REGISTRATION AND LICENSING OFFICER
Deputy Labour Commissioners of the labour Department have been appointed Registering and Licensing Officers under the Act for the respective areas falling under their control. The Principal Employers and the contractors are required to maintain registers and other records giving particulars of Inter-state Migrant workmen employed along with the nature of jobs performed by such workmen and the rate of wages paid to them.
PENALTY
The penalty for offences committed by the defaulting managements is imprisonment up to one year or a fine up to Rs.10,000/- or with both. In case the offence continues there is a provision for additional fine up to Rs.100/- for each day during which the contraventions continue after the first conviction.