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