47C. Notwithstanding that any person concerned as an employer in any industrial dispute has ceased to be such employer-
| (a) such dispute may be referred for settlement to an industrial court or for settlement by arbitration to an arbitrator or for settlement by adjudication to a labour tribunal and proceedings on such reference may be taken by such court or arbitrator, |
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| (b) if such dispute was so referred for settlement while such person was such employer, proceedings on such reference may be commenced or continued and concluded by the industrial court or arbitrator or tribunal to which or whom such reference was made, and |
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| (c) in any award made by such court or arbitrator or tribunal such person may be ordered to pay to any other person concerned in such dispute as a workman employed by the first-mentioned person while he was such employer any sum whether as wages in respect of any period during which such other person was employed by the first-mentioned person or as compensation as an alternative to the reinstatement of such other person, and such order may be enforced against the first-mentioned person in like manner as if he were such employer. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts