Section - 5 - Employees Compensation Act, 1923

Section - 5 - Method of calculating wages

Method of calculating wages.

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[In this Act and for the purposes thereof the expression "monthly wages" means the amount of wages deemed to be payable for a month’s service (whether the wages are payable by the month or by whatever other period or at piece rates), and calculated] as follows, namely:—

(a) where the

[employee] has, during a continuous period of not less than twelve months immediately preceding the accident, been in the service of the employer who is liable to pay compensation, the monthly wages of the

[employee] shall be one-twelfth of the total wages which have fallen due for payment to him by the employer in the last twelve months of that period;

[(b) where the whole of the continuous period of service immediately preceding the accident during which the

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