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Single application in respect of claims from unpaid group.- (1) Employed persons are said to belong to the same unpaid group if they are borne on the same establishment and if 1*[deductions have been made from their wages in contravention of this Act for the same cause and during the same wage-period or periods or if] their wages for the same wage-period or periods have remained unpaid after the day fixed by section 5. (2) A single application may be presented under section 15 on behalf or in respect of any number of employed persons belonging to the same unpaid group, and in such case 2*[every person on whose behalf such application is presented may be awarded maximum compensation to the extent specified in sub-section (3) of section 15]. 15 (3) The authority may deal with any number of separate pending applications, presented under section 15 in respect of persons belonging to the same unpaid group, as a single application presented under ---------------------------------------------------------------------