Published on : 11 Dec 2025, 8:30 am 2 min read

The Delhi High Court said on Thursday that the Central government may have brought into force the new Industrial Relations Code 2020 into force without following the proper procedure for repeal of the earlier laws governing the field.

A Division Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela noted that the government has not issued any notification specifying that the Trade Unions Act, 1926, the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 and the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 have been repealed either in part or in totality.

“There has to be a repealing notification. The notification should contain the declaration of the commencement of the code, and it must also notify the repeal of these Ac

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