LawgistThe Payment of Wages Act
18Powers of authorities appointed under section 15
Every authority appointed under sub-section(1) of section 15 shall have all the powers of a Civil Court under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), for the purpose of taking evidence and of enforcing the attendance of witnesses and compelling the production of documents, and every such authority shall be deemed to be a Civil Court of all the purposes of section 195 and of 1[Chapter XXVI of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974)].
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1. Subs. by Act 38 of 1982, s. 10, for "Chapter XXVI of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973" (w.e.f. 15-10-1982).
All sections
- 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
