PAYMENT OF WAGES ACT
1936
- 1. Short title, extent, commencement and application
- 2. Definitions
- 3. Responsibility for payment of wages
- 4. Fixation of wage-periods
- 5. Time of payment of wages
- 6. Wages to be paid in current coin or currency notes
- 7. Deductions which may be made from wages
- 8. Fines
- 9. Deductions for absence from duty
- 10. Deductions for damage or loss
- 11. Deductions for services rendered
- 12. Deductions for recovery of advances
- 12-A. Deductions for recovery of loans
- 13. Deductions for payments to cooperative societies and insurance schemes
- 13-A. Maintenance of registers and records
- 14. Inspectors
- 14-A. Facilities to be afforded to Inspectors
- 15. Claims arising out of deductions from wages or delay in payment of wages and penalty for malicious or vexatious claims
- 16. Single application in respect of claims from unpaid group
- 17. Appeal
- 17-A. Conditional attachment of property of employer or other person responsible for payment of wages
- 18. Powers of authorities appointed under Section 15
- 19. Power to recover from employer in certain cases
- 20. Penalty for offences under the Act
- 21. Procedure in trial of offences
- 22. Bar of suits
- 22-A. Protection of action taken in good faith
- 23. Contracting out
- 24. Delegation of Powers
- 25. Display by notice of abstracts of the Act
- 25-A. Payment of undisbursed wages in cases of death of employed person
- 26. Rule-making power