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The payment of wages act, 1936

rajasthan · 1936

  • S. 1Short title, extent, commencement and application.
  • S. 2Definitions.
  • S. 3Responsibility for payment of wages.
  • S. 4Fixation of wage-periods.
  • S. 5Time of payment of wages.
  • S. 6Wages to be paid in current coin or currency notes or by cheque or crediting in bank account.
  • S. 7Deductions which may be made from wages.
  • S. 8Fines.
  • S. 9Deductions for absence from duty.
  • S. 10Deductions for damage or loss.
  • S. 11Deductions for services rendered.
  • S. 12Deductions for recovery of advances.
  • S. 12ADeductions for recovery of loans.
  • S. 13Deductions for payments to co-operative societies and insurance schemes.
  • S. 13AMaintenance of registers and records.
  • S. 14Inspectors.
  • S. 14AFacilities to be afforded to Inspectors.
  • S. 15Claims arising out of deductions from wages or delay in payment of wages and penalty for malicious or vexatious claims.
  • S. 16Single application in respect of claims from unpaid group.
  • S. 17Appeal.
  • S. 17AConditional attachment of property of employer or other person responsible for payment of wages.
  • S. 18Powers of authorities appointed under section 15.
  • S. 19[Omitted].
  • S. 20Penalty for offences under the Act.
  • S. 21Procedure in trial of offences.
  • S. 22Bar of Suits.
  • S. 22AProtection of action taken in good faith.
  • S. 23Contracting out.
  • S. 24Delegation of powers.
  • S. 25Display by notice of abstracts of the Act.
  • S. 25APayment of undisbursed wages in cases of death of employed person.
  • S. 26Rule-making power.
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