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1[The employer shall allow a day of rest with wages to the employees every week. ordinarily, Sunday will be the weekly day of rest, but any other day of the week may be fixed as such rest, day. No employee shall be required to work on a day fixed as rest day, unless he is paid wages for that day at the overtime rate and is also allowed a substituted rest day with wages (see rule 23).] When a worker works in an employment for more than nine hours on any day or for more than forty-eight hours in any week, he shall in respect to overtime worke4d be entitled to wages in scheduled employment other than agriculture, at double the ordinary rate of wages. V. Fines and deductions No. deductions shall be made from wages except those authorized by or under the rules. Deductions from the wages shall be one or more of the following kinds, namely:- (i) Fines: An employed person shall be explained personally and also in writing the act or omission in respect of which the fine is proposed to be imposed and given an opportunity to offer any explanation in the presence of another person. The amount of the said fine shall also be intimated to him. [It shall be subject to 1 Substituted by G.S.R. 918, dated 29-7-1960. 44 The Minimum Wages (Central) Rules, 1950 Forms such limits as may be specified in this behalf by the Central Government]. It shall be utilized in accordance with the directions of the Central Government; (ii) deductions for absence from duty; (iii) deductions for damages to or loss of goods entrusted to the employee for custody, or for loss of money for which he is required to account, where such damage or loss is directly attributable to his neglect or default. The employed person shall be explained personally, and also in writing the damage or loss, in respect of which the deduction is proposed to be made and given an opportunity to offer any explanation in the presence of another person. The amount of the said deduction shall also be intimated to him. 1[It shall be subject to such limits as may be specified in this behalf by the Central Government]; (iv) deductions for house accommodations supplied by the employer 2[or by a State Government or any authority constituted by a State for providing house accommodation]; (v) deductions for such amenities and services supplied by the employer as the Central Government may by general or special order authorise. These will not include the supply of tools and protectives required for the purposes of employment. (vi) deductions for recovery of advances or for adjustment of over- payment of wages; such advances shall not exceed an amount equal to wages for two calendar months of the employed person and the monthly instalment of deduction shall not exceed one- fourth of the wages earned in that month; (vii) deductions of income-tax payable by the employed person; (viii) deductions required to be made by order of a Court or other competent authority; (ix) deductions for subscription to and for repayment of advances from any provident fund; 3[(x) deductions for payment to co-operative societies 4[or deductions for recovery of loans advanced by an employer from out of a fund maintained for the purpose by the employer and approved in this behalf by the Central Government] or deductions made with the written authorization of the person employed, for payment of any premium on his life insurance policy to the Life Insurance Corporation of India established under the Life Insurance Act, 1956 (31 of 1956);] (xi) deductions for recovery or adjustment of amount other than wages, paid to the employed person in error or in excess of what is due to him; 1 Substituted by G.S.R. 213, dated 7-2-1962. 2 Substituted by G.S.R. 109, dated 14-1-1959. 3 Substituted by G.S.R. 109, dated 14-1-1959. 4 Inserted by G.S.R. 213, dated 7-2-1962. Forms The Minimum Wages (Central) Rules, 1950 45 Provided that prior approval of the Inspector or any other officer authorized by the Central Government in this behalf obtained in writing before making the deductions, unless the employee gives his consent in writing to such deduction; 1[(xii) [deductions made with the written authorization of the employed person which may be given once generally and not necessarily every time a deduction is made) for the purchase of securities of the Government of India or of any State Government or for being deposited in any post office savings bank in furtherance of any savings scheme of any such Government. Every employer shall send annually return in Form III showing the deductions from swages so as to reach the Inspector not later than the 1st of February following the end of the year to which it relates.] VI. Maintenance of registers and records Every employer 2[shall maintain at the work-spot a register of wages in the form prescribed] specifying the following particulars for each period in respect of each employed person: (a) the minimum rates of wages payable; (b) the number of days in which overtime was worked; (c) the gross wages; (d) all deductions made from wages; (e) the wages actually paid and the date of payment. Every employer shall issue wage-slips 3[in the form prescribed] containing prescribed particulars to every person employed.] Every employer shall get the signature or the thumb-impression of every person employed on the wage-book and wage-slips. Entries in the wage-book and wage-slips shall be properly authenticated by the employer or his agent. 4[A muster-roll, register of fines, register of deductions for damage or loss and register of overtime shall be maintained by every employer at the work-spot in the form prescribed.] 5[Every employer shall keep exhibited at main entrance to the establishment and its office notice in English and the language understood by a majority of the workers of the following particulars in clean and legible form; (a) minimum rate of wages; (b) 6[abstracts of] the Acts and the rules made thereunder; (c) name and address of the Inspector. 7[Register of wages, muster-roll, register of fines, register of deductions for damage or loss and register of overtime shall be preserved for a period of three years after the date of last entry made therein. 1 Substituted by G.S.R. 109, dated 14-1-1959. 2 Substituted by G.S.R. 213, dated 7-2-1962. 3 Inserted by G.S.R. 213, dated 7-2-1962. 4 Substituted by G.S.R. 213, dated 7-2-1962. 5 Substituted by G.S.R. 213, dated 7-2-1962. 6 Substituted by G.S.R. 109, dated 14-1-1959. 7 Inserted by G.S.R. 213, dated 7-2-1962. 46 The Minimum Wages (Central) Rules, 1950 Forms All registers and records required to be maintained by an employer under the rules shall be produced on demand before the Inspector provided that where an establishment has been closed, the Inspector may demand the production of the registers and records in his office or such other public place as may be nearer to employers.] VII. Inspectors An Inspector can enter in any premises and can exercise the powers of inspection (including examination of documents and taking of evidence) as he may deem necessary for carrying out the purposes of the Act. VIII. Claims of complaints