Payment of Wages Act, 1936

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

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

6. All wages shall be paid in current coin or currency notes or by cheque or by crediting the wages in the bank account of the employee:

Provided that the appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify the industrial or other establishment, the employer of which shall pay to every person employed in such industrial or other establishment, the wages only by cheque or by crediting the wages in his bank account.]

STATE AMENDMENTS

ANDHRA PRADESH

Section 6

In section 6, after the proviso, the following further proviso shall be inserted, namely :-

"Provided further that the State Government may, by notification in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette, specify the industrial establishments, the employers of which shall pay to the persons employed therein, the wages either by cheque or by crediting the wages in their bank account." - Vide Andhra Pradesh Act No. 15 of 1982.

GUJARAT

Section 6

For section 6, the following shall be substituted, namely :-

'6. Wages to be paid in current coin or currency notes.-All wages shall be paid in current coin or currency notes, or in both:

Provided that, where the amount of any bonus payable to an employed person exceeds an amount equal to one-fourth of his earnings (exclusive of dearness allowance) for the year to which the bonus relates, such excess shall be paid or invested in the manner prescribed.

Explanation : For the purposes of this section, the expression-

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