Payment of Wages Act, 1936

Section - 3 - Responsibility for payment of wages

[Responsibility for payment of wages.

3.   (1) Every employer shall be responsible for the payment of all wages required to be paid under this Act to persons employed by him and in case of persons employed,—

 (a)  in factories, if a person has been named as the manager of the factory under clause (f) of sub-section (1) of section 7 of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948);

 (b)  in industrial or other establishments, if there is a person responsible to the employer for the supervision and con­trol of the industrial or other establishments;

 (c)  upon railways (other than in factories), if the employer is the railway administration and the railway adminis­tration has nominated a person in this behalf for the local area concerned;

 (d)  in the case of contractor, a person designated by such contractor who is directly under his charge; and

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