Lawgist6Wages to be paid in current coin or currency notes or by cheque or crediting in bank account
1[6. Wages to be paid in current coin or currency notes or by cheque or crediting in bank account.-- All wages shall be paid in current coin or currency notes or by cheque or by crediting the wages in the bank account of the employee:
Provided that the appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify the industrial or other establishment, the employer of which shall pay to every person employed in such industrial or other establishment, the wages only by cheque or by crediting the wages in his bank account.]
STATE AMENDMENT
Kerala
Amendment of section 6.--In the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 (Central Act 4 of 1936), in section 6, after the existing proviso, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:--
"Provided further that notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, the State Government may, by notification in the Gazette, specify the industrial or other establishment, the employers of which shall pay to the person employed therein, the wages either by cheque or by crediting the wages in his bank account, without obtaining any authorisation of the employed person.”
[Vide Kerala Act 11 of 2016, sec. 2.]
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1 Subs. by Act 1 of 2017, s. 2, for section 6 (w.e.f. 28-12-2016).
- 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
