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Short title, extent, commencement and application.- (1) This Act may be called the Payment of Wages Act, 1936. 2[(2) It extends to the whole of India 3[***].] (3) It shall come into force on such date 4as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. (4) It applies in the first instance to the payment of wages to persons employed in any 5[factory, to persons] employed (otherwise than in a factory) upon any railway by a railway administration or, either directly or through a sub- contractor, by a person fulfilling a contract with a railway administration, 6[and to persons employed in an industrial or other establishment specified in sub- clauses (a) to (g) of clause (ii) of Section 2]. (5) The 7[Appropriate Government] may, after giving three months' notice of its intention of so doing, by notification in the Official Gazette, extend the provisions of 8[this Act or any of them to the payment of wages to any class of persons employed in 9[any establishment or class of establishments specified by the Central Government or a State Government under sub-clause (h) of clause (ii) of section 2.] 10[Provided that in relation to any such establishment owned by the Central Government, no such notification shall be issued except with the concurrence of that Government.] 11[(6) This Act applies to wages payable to an employed person in respect of a wages period is such wages for that wage period do not exceed 12[ten thousand rupees per month] or such other higher sum which, on the basis of figures of the Consumer Expenditure Survey published by the National Sample Survey 1 Subs. by Act No.38 of 1982, S. 2, for “persons employed in industry” (w.e.f. 15.10.1982) 2 Subs. by A.O. 1950, for sub-sec 3 Omitted by Act 51 of 1970 4 28th March, 1937, see Gaz. of India 1937, Pt. 1, p. 626. 5 Subs. by Act No.38 of 1982 (w.e.f. 15.10.1982) 6 Ins. by Act No.38 of 1982 (w.e.f. 15.10.1982) 7 Subs. by Act 41 of 2005, sec. 3 for “The State Government” (w.e.f 09-11-2005) 8 Subs. by Act No.68 of 1957 (w.e.f. 1.4.1958) 9 Subs. by Act No.38 of 1982 (w.e.f. 15.10.1982) 10 Subs. by Act No.38 of 1982 (w.e.f. 15.10.1982) 11 Subs. by Act 41 of 2005, sec. 2, for sub-section “(6) Nothing in this Act shall apply to wages payable in respect of a wage-period which over such wage period, average one thousand six hundred rupees a month or more” (w.e.f 09-11-2005). 12 Substituted for “six thousand five hundred rupees per month” by S.O. 1380(E), dated 8th August, 2007. 2 The Payment of Wages Act, 1936 Sec. Organisation, the Central Government may, after every five years, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify.]