The Payment of Wages Act `1936
An Act to regulate the payment of wages of certain classes of employed persons.
List of Chapters & Sections
All sections
- 1Short title, extent, commencement and application
- 2Definitions
- 3Responsibility for payment of wages
- 4Fixation of wage-periods
- 5Time of payment of wages
- 6Wages to be paid in current coin or currency notes or by cheque or crediting in bank account
- 7Deductions which may be made from wages
- 8Fines
- 9Deductions for absence from duty
- 10Deductions for damage or loss
- 11Deductions for services rendered
- 12Deductions for recovery of advances
- 12ADeductions for recovery of loans
- 13Deductions for payments to co-operative societies and insurance schemes
- 13AMaintenance of registers and records
- 14Inspectors
- 14AFacilities to be afforded to Inspectors
- 15Claims arising out of deductions from wages or delay in payment of wages and penalty for malicious or vexatious claims
- 16Single application in respect of claims from unpaid group
- 17Appeal
- 17AConditional attachment of property of employer or other person responsible for payment of wages
- 18Powers of authorities appointed under section 15
- 19[Omitted]
- 20Penalty for offences under the Act
- 21Procedure in trial of offences
- 22Bar of Suits
- 22AProtection of action taken in good faith
- 23Contracting out
- 24Delegation of powers
- 25Display by notice of abstracts of the Act
- 25APayment of undisbursed wages in cases of death of employed person
- 26Rule-making power