Payment of Wages Act, 1936

Section - 8 - Fines

Fines.

8.   (1) No fine shall be imposed on any employed person save in respect of such acts and omissions on his part as the employer, with the previous  approval of [appropriate Government] or of the prescribed authority, may have specified by notice under sub-section (2).

(2) A notice specifying such acts and omissions shall be exhibit­ed in the prescribed manner on the premises in which the employ­ment is carried on or in the case of persons employed upon a railway (otherwise than in a factory), at the prescribed place or places.

(3) No fine shall be imposed on any employed person until he has been given an opportunity of showing cause against the fine, or otherwise than in accordance with such procedure as may be pre­scribed for the imposition of fines.

(4) The total amount of fine which may be imposed in any one wage-period on any employed person shall not exceed an amount equal to [three per cent] of the wages payable to him in re­spect of that wage-period.

(5) No fine shall be imposed on any employed person who is under the age of fifteen years.

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