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(1) An employee who is. placed under suspension shall, during the period of such suspension, be entitled to receive .payment from the employer as subsistence allowance) an amount equal to fifty per centurn of the wages which the employee was drawing immediately before such suspension: Provided that where the period of suspension exceeds 90 days the amount of subsistence allowance shall: be in- creased after the expiry of 90 days to seventy-five per eentunt of the wages which the employee was drawing immediately before such suspension: Proivded further that an employee shall not be entitled to any subsistence allowance if he accepts employment during the period of - suspension in any place other than the establishment, where he had been working immediately before his suspension. The West Bengal Payment of Subsistence Allowance Act, 3 1.969. XXXV111 101 1969.] (Sections 4-7.) (2) An employee shall not in any event be liable to refund or forfeit any part of the subsistence allowance admissible to him under sub-section (1) but when an employee is exonerated of the charge which caused his suspension the subsistence allowance paid to him for any period shall be adjusted against the full wages admissible to him for the same period. 4.. Where any money is due to an employee from an employer under this Act, the employee himself or any other person authorised by him in this behalf, or, in the case of the death of the employee, his legal representative may, without prejudice to any other mod of recovery, make an. application to the State Government in such manner as may be prescribed for the recovery of money due to him, and if the State Government, after giving the employer an oppor- tunity of being heard, in such manner as may be prescribed, is satisfied that any money is so due, it shall. issue a certi- ficate for that amount to the Collector who shall proceed to recover the same in the same manner as an arrear of land revenue: Provided that every such application shall be made within one year from the date on which the money became due to the employee from the employer:. Provided further that any such application may be entertained after the expiry of the said period of one year, if the State Government is satisfied that the applicant had sufficient cause for not making the application within the said period.