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Maintenance of registers and records.— (1) Every employer shall maintain such registers and records giving such particulars of employees employed by him, the work performed by them, the wages paid to them, the receipts given by them and such other particulars and in such form as may be prescribed. (2) Every employer shall keep exhibited, in such manner as may be prescribed, in the factory, workshop or place where the employees in the scheduled employment may be employed, or in the case of out workers, in such factory, workshop or place as may be used for giving out-work to them, notices in the prescribed form containing prescribed particulars. (3) The appropriate Government may, by rules made under this Act, provide for the issue of wage books or wage slips to employees employed in any scheduled employment in respect of which minimum rates of wages have been fixed and prescribe the manner in which entries shall be made and authenticated in such wage books or wage slips by the employer or his agent. Every employer, including a contractor who engages labourers for others who owns the establishment/factory, etc., is bound by the provisions of this Act, to comply with the requirement of maintaining Registers etc., There is no exemption to this mandatory obligation of the employer including any contractor; V. V. Surya Rau v. Surendra Ramkrishna Tendulkar, 1997 (77) FLR 280. Case Law 9(3) The Punjab Minimum Wages Rules, 1950