According to which provision of the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020, no…

Section 3(7) of the OSH Code, 2020 (formerly section 9 of the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970) bars an employer from employing any employee in an establishment that has not been registered under section 3, or whose registration certificate has been cancelled under section 3(5) or registration revoked under section 3(6), where no appeal under section 4 has been preferred or the appeal has been dismissed. Section 3(1) governs the application for registration and section 3(6) its revocation, while section 57 prohibits employment of contract labour in core activities of an establishment.