THE PAYMENT OF WAGES ACT, 1936

ACT NO. 4 OF 1936 · Enacted [23rd April,1936.] · 32 sections

Section 1.Short title, extent, commencement and application.

Section 2.Definitions.

Section 3.Responsibility for payment of wages.

Section 4.Fixation of wage-periods.

Section 5.Time of payment of wages.

Section 6.Wages to be paid in current coin or currency notes or by cheque or crediting in bank account.

Section 7.Deductions which may be made from wages.

Section 8.Fines.

Section 9.Deductions for absence from duty.

Section 10.Deductions for damage or loss.

Section 11.Deductions for services rendered.

Section 12.Deductions for recovery of advances.

Section 12A.Deductions for recovery of loans.

Section 13.Deductions for payments to co-operative societies and insurance schemes.

Section 13A.Maintenance of registers and records.

Section 14.Inspectors.

Section 14A.Facilities to be afforded to Inspectors.

Section 15.Claims arising out of deductions from wages or delay in payment of wages and penalty for malicious or vexatious claims.

Section 16.Single application in respect of claims from unpaid group.

Section 17.Appeal.

Section 17A.Conditional attachment of property of employer or other person responsible for payment of wages.

Section 18.Powers of authorities appointed under section 15.

Section 19.[Omitted.].

Section 20.Penalty for offences under the Act.

Section 21.Procedure in trial of offences.

Section 22.Bar of Suits.

Section 22A.Protection of action taken in good faith.

Section 23.Contracting out.

Section 24.Delegation of powers.

Section 25.Display by notice of abstracts of the Act.

Section 25A.Payment of undisbursed wages in cases of death of employed person.

Section 26.Rule-making power.