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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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    • 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