Sexual Harassment at Workplace — Amendments

Amendment	Year	Description	Impact
Act 23 of 2016	2016	The Repealing and Amending Act, 2016 changed terminology in sections 6, 7 and 24 of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013. Section 3 and the Second Schedule replace Local Complaints Committee with Local Committee, and Internal Complaints Committee with Internal Committee, wherever those expressions occur in the specified sections. The official consolidated text records effect from 6 May 2016. This was a targeted amendment, not the enactment that first created the redressal framework.	When comparing an older training manual with a consolidated Act, a different committee label need not mean a new redressal institution was created. Trace the section and legal function before inferring a jurisdictional change. The original Act still supplies the substantive framework: section 4 concerns the workplace committee, while section 6 addresses the district committee, including establishments with fewer than ten workers and complaints against the employer. The 2016 terminology amendment should not be described as changing the definition of harassment, abolishing complaints or transferring every case to the district.