Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(T) The wages of a person employed shall be paid to him without deductions of any kind except those authorised by or under this Act. Explanation.-Every payment made by a person employed to the employer shall, for the purpose of this Act, be deemed to be a deduction from the wages. (2) Deduction from the wages of a person shall be made only in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and may be of the following kinds only, namely ;- Deduction which may be made from wages. (a) fines; (b) deductions for absence from duty; (c) deductions for damage to, or loss of, goods expressly entrusted to the' employed person 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; (d) deductions for house accommodation, if any, supplied by the employer; (e) deductions for such amenities and services supplied by the employer as the State Government may, by general or special order, autho rise ; , (f) deductions for recovery of advance or for adjustment of over-payments of wages j (g) deductions of income-tax payable by the employed person; (h) deductions required to be made by an order of a Court or other authority competent to make such order; (i) deductions for subscriptions to, and for repayment of advances from, any provident fund to which the Provident Funds A~t, 192) appl.ies or any provident fund 19 of 1925. approved in this behalf by the State Government durmg the continuance of such approval; (j) dedcuctions for payments to co-operative societies approved in this behalf by the State Government or to a schem~ of i~surance maintainedby the Indian Post Office, or by any insurance company approved In this behalf by the State Government; (k) deductions made with the written authorisation of the employed person - in furtherance of any savings scheme approved by the State Government for the purchase of securities of the Central or State Government.