Lawgist22AGeneral provision for punishment of other offences
1[22A. General provision for punishment of other offences.--Any employer who contravenes any provision of this Act or of any rule or order made thereunder shall, if no other penalty is provided for such contravention by this Act, be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.]
STATE AMENDMENTS
Kerala--
Substitution of Section 22A.--For section 22A of the principal Act, the following section shall be substituted, namely:--
"22A. General Provision for punishment of other offences.--(1) Whoever contravenes the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two lakh rupees and in the case of a continuing contravention, with an additional fine which may extend to two thousand rupees for every day during which such contravention continues:
Provided that the total amount of fine shall not exceed two thousand rupees per worker employed.
(2) If any person who has been convicted of any offence punishable under sub-section (1) is again guilty of an offence involving a contravention or failure of compliance of the same provision, he shall be punishable on a subsequent conviction with fine which shall not be less than one lakh rupees but which may extend to five lakh rupees.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (2) of section 29 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Central Act 2 of 1974), it shall be lawful for the Magistrate to impose a fine for an amount exceeding ten thousand rupees.".
[Vide Kerala Act 23 of 2017, sec. 4].
Karnataka--
Amendment of section 22A.--In section 22A of the Principal Act, for the words “five hundred rupees" the words "ten thousand rupees" shall be substituted.
[Vide Karnataka Act 40 of 2017, sec. 4].
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1. Subs. by s. 14, ibid., for section 22.
- 1 Short title and extent
- 2 Interpretation
- 3 Fixing of minimum rates of wages
- 4 Minimum rate of wages
- 5 Procedure for fixing and revising minimum wages
- 6 [Omitted.]
- 7 Advisory Board
- 8 Central Advisory Board
- 9 Composition of committees, etc
- 10 Correction of errors
- 11 Wages in kind
- 12 Payment of minimum rates of wages
- 13 Fixing hours for a normal working day, etc
- 14 Overtime
- 15 Wages of worker who works for less than normal working day
- 16 Wages for two or more classes of work
- 17 Minimum time rate wages for piece work
- 18 Maintenance of registers and records
- 19 Inspectors
- 20 Claims
- 21 Single application in respect of a number of employees
- 22 Penalties for certain offences
- 22A General provision for punishment of other offences
- 22B Cognizance of offences
- 22C Offences by companies
- 22D Payment of undisbursed amounts due to employees
- 22E Protection against attachment of assets of employer with Government
- 22F Application of Payment of Wages Act, 1936, to scheduled employments
- 23 Exemption of employer from liability in certain cases
- 24 Bar of suits
- 25 Contracting out
- 26 Exemptions and exceptions
- 27 Power of State Government to add to Schedule
- 28 Power of Central Government to give directions
- 29 Power of the Central Government to make rules
- 30 Power of appropriate Government to make rules
- 30A Rules made by Central Government to be laid before Parliament
- 31 Validation of fixation of certain minimum rates of wages
