Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Every landowner shall pay to any agricultural worker employed by him the prescribed wages for each day of work done. (2) The Government may, from time to time, by notification in the Gazette, fix the number of hours of work which shall constitute a normal working day for the purposes of sub-section (1) either for the whole Sate or any part thereof: Provided that where the Government have fixed the number of hours of work which shall constitute a normal working day in respect of any of the categories of agricultural workers in the employment in agriculture under Section 13 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 Central Act 11 of 1948), the hours of work so fixed shall, until a notification is issued under this sub-section, be deemed to have been fixed under this sub-section.