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Deduction from salary or wages.- (1) A member of a registered society may execute an agreement in favour of that society providing that his employer or the officer disbursing his salary or wages shall be competent on a requisition in writing from the society, to deduct every month from the salary or wages payable to him such amount as may be specified in the requisition towards the amount due by him to the society, in respect of any debt or other demand owing by the member to the society from time to time: Provided that the said agreement shall also include a clause that if the member ceases to be an employee of the establishment, the balance of the dues shall be deductable from the gratuity payable to him. (2) (a) Where any such agreement as is referred to in sub-section (1) has been executed by a member of a registered society, the employer or the officer disbursing the salary or wages of such member shall, on receipt of a requisition from the society, make the deduction from the salary or wages payable to the member in accordance with the requisition, and pay, within such time as may be specified in the rules in respect of any society or class of societies, the amount so deducted to the society. (b) Where the amount to be deducted in any month in accordance with the requisition made by a society, or where a requisition has been made by two or more societies in respect of the same person, the total amount to be deducted in accordance with all the requisitions, exceeds one-half of his salary or wages actually payable to him for the month, the employer or the officer disbursing the salary or wages shall deduct from such salary or wages a sum representing one-half of such salary or wages. The amount deducted shall, where deductions have been made against requisitions received from two or more societies, be paid by the employer or the officer disbursing the salary or wages to all the societies in proportion to the amounts to be deducted according to their requisitions: Provided that where any amount is due to such class of registered societies as may be specified in the rules, the entire salary or wages for the month or such portion thereof as may be specified in the rules in respect of any such class of societies may be deducted and paid as aforesaid. (3) The employer or the officer disbursing the salary or wages shall maintain such registers as may be prescribed. (4) The provisions of this section shall also apply to all such agreements- (a) of the nature referred to in sub-section (1) as are in force at the commencement of this Act; and (b) as are executed by the members of any society registered in any other State. 75 (5) The provisions of this section shall apply notwithstanding any law to the contrary for the time being in force. (6) If any employer or the officer disbursing the salary or wages of any such member as is referred to in sub-section (l), fails without reasonable cause to comply with any of the provisions of this section, he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees. (7) Nothing contained in this section shall apply to establishments under a railway administration operating any railway as defined in clause (20) of article 366 of the Constitution.