Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) No fine shall be imposed on any employed person save in respect of such acts and omissions on his part as the employer, with the previous approval of [the appropriate Government] or of the prescribed authority, may have specified by notice under sub-section (2). (2) A notice specifying such acts and omissions shall be exhibited in the prescribed manner on the premises in which the employment is carried on or in the case of persons employed upon a railway (otherwise than in a factory), at the prescribed place or places. (3) No fine shall be imposed on any employed person until he has been given an opportunity of showing cause against the fine, or otherwise than in accordance with such procedure as may be prescribed for the imposition of the fines. (4) The total amount of fine which may be imposed in any one wage-period on any employed person shall not exceed an amount equal to three percent of the wages payable to him in respect of that wage-period. (5) No fine shall be imposed on any employed person who is under the age of fifteen years. (6) No fine imposed on any employed person shall be recovered from him by installments or after the expiry of [ninety days] from the day on which it was imposed. (7) Every fine shall be deemed to have been imposed on the day of the act or omission in respect of which it was imposed. (8) All fines and all realisations thereof shall be recorded in a register to be kept by the person responsible for the payment of wages under Sec. 3 in such form as may be prescribed; and all such realisations shall be applied only to such purposes beneficial to the persons employed in the factory or establishment as are approved by the prescribed authority. Explanation.-- When the persons employed upon or in any railway, factory or industrial or other establishment are part only of a staff employed under the same management, all such realisations may be credited to a common fund maintained for the staff as a whole, provided that the fund shall be applied only to such purposes as are approved by the prescribed authority. *STATE AMEDMENT KERALA. -In Sec. 8 (8) before the explanation, a new proviso has been added, namely: "Provided that in the case of any establishment to which Kerala Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1975, applies all such realisations shall be paid into the Fund constituted under that Act." Substituted by Act 41 of 2005 (w.e.f. 09/11/2005). Prior to the amendment it read as "the State Government" Substituted by Act 41 of 2005 (w.e.f. 09/11/2005). Prior to the amendment it read as "sixty days" Vide Kerala Act 11 of 1977, Sec. 43 (w.e.f. Ist May, 1977).