The Payment of Gratuity Act `1972
An Act to provide for a scheme for the payment of gratuity to employees engaged in factories, mines, oilfields, plantations, ports, railway companies, shops or other establishments and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
List of Chapters & Sections
All sections
- 1Short title, extent, application and commencement
- 2Definitions
- 2AContinuous service
- 3Controlling authority
- 4Payment of gratuity
- 4ACompulsory insurance
- 5Power to exempt
- 6Nomination
- 7Determination of the amount of gratuity
- 7AInspectors
- 7BPowers of Inspectors
- 8Recovery of gratuity
- 9Penalties
- 10Exemption of employer from liability in certain cases
- 11Cognizance of offences
- 12Protection of action taken in good faith
- 13Protection of gratuity
- 14Act to override other enactments, etc
- 15Power to make rules