Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
The words “advisory committees, advisory sub-committees” omitted by Act 30 of 1957, s. 16. 14 (b) prescribe the method of summoning witnesses, production of documents relevant to the subject- matter of the enquiry before the committees, sub-committees, 1*** and the Advisory Board; (c) prescribe the mode of computation of the cash value of wages in kind and of concessions in respect of supplies of essential commodities at concession rates; (d) prescribe the time and conditions of payment of, and the deductions permissible from, wages; (e) provide for giving adequate publicity to the minimum rates of wages fixed under this Act; (f) provide for a day of rest in every period of seven days and for the payment of remuneration in respect of such day; (g) prescribe the number of hours of work which shall constitute a normal working day; (h) prescribe the cases and circumstances in which an employee employed for a period of less than the requisite number of hours constituting a normal working day shall not be entitled to receive wages for a full normal working day; (i) prescribe the form of registers and records to be maintained and the particulars to be entered in such registers and records; (j) provide for the issue of wage books and wage slips and prescribe the manner of making and authenticating entries in wage books and wage slips; (k) prescribe the powers of Inspectors for purposes of this Act; (l) regulate the scale of costs that may be allowed in proceedings under section 20; (m) prescribe the amount of court-fees payable in respect of proceedings under section 20; and (n) provide for any other matter which is to be or may be prescribed. 2[30A. Rules made by Central Government to be laid before Parliament.—3[(1)] Every rule made by the Central Government under this Act shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made before each House of Parliament while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the session immediately following, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.] 4[(2) every rule made by the State Government under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before the State Legislature.] 5[31. Validation of fixation of certain minimum rates of wages.—Where during the period— (a) commencing on the 1st day of April, 1952, and ending with the date of the commencement of the Minimum Wages (Amendment) Act, 1954 (26 of 1954); or (b) commencing on the 31st day of December, 1954, and ending with the date of the commencement of the Minimum Wages (Amendment) Act, 1957 (30 of 1957); or (c) commencing on the 31st day of December, 1959, and ending with the date of the commencement of the Minimum Wages (Amendment) Act, 1961 (31 of 1961), minimum rates of wages have been fixed by an appropriate Government as being payable to employees employed in any employment specified in the Schedule in the belief or purported belief that such rates were being fixed under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 3, as in force immediately before the commencement of the Minimum Wages (Amendment) Act, 1954 (26 of 1954), or the Minimum Wages