Payment of Wages Act, 1936

PAYMENT OF WAGES ACT, 1936

[4 OF 1936]

[NOW REPEALED BY THE CODE ON WAGES, 2019, DATED 8-8-2019, W.E.F. A DATE YET TO BE NOTIFIED]

An Act to regulate the payment of wages to certain classes of [employed persons]

Whereas it is expedient to regulate the payment of wages to certain classes of [employed persons].

It is hereby enacted as follows :-

Short title, extent, commencement and application.

1. (1) This Act may be called the Payment of Wages Act, 1936.

[(2) It extends to the whole of India [***].]

(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

(4) It applies in the first instance to the payment of wages to persons employed in any [factory, to persons] employed (otherwise than in a factory) upon any railway by a railway administration or, either directly or through a sub-contractor, by a person fulfilling a contract with a railway administration [, and to persons employed in an industrial or other establishment specified in sub-clauses (a) to (g) of clause (ii) of section 2].

(5) [Appropriate Government] may, after giving three months' notice of its intention of so doing, by notification in the Official Gazette, extend the provisions of [this Act] or any of them to the payment of wages to any class of persons employed in [any establishment or class of establishments specified by the [appropriate Government] under sub-clause (h) of clause (ii) of section 2]:

[Provided that in relation to any such establishment owned by the Central Government, no such notification shall be issued except with the concurrence of that G .... To read the full section download the app from Google Play store