LawgistThe Payment of Wages Act
4Fixation of wage-periods
(1) Every person responsible for the payment of wages under section 3 shall fix periods (in this Act referred to as wage-periods) in respect of which such wages shall be payable.
(2) No wage-period shall exceed one month.
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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
