Payment of Wages Act, 1936

STATE AMENDMENT

UTTAR PRADESH

1. After section 20, the following section shall be inserted, namely:-

"Composition of offences

20A. (1) Any offence committed under this Act, punishable with fine or with imprisonment up to six months or with both may, on an application of the accused person either before or after institution of prosecution, be compounded by a Competent Officer, as the State Government may by notification, specify, for a sum of fifty per cent of the maximum fine provided for such offence, in such manner as may be prescribed:

Provided that the compounding of offences under this section is available only for commission of first offence.

(2) Every officer referred to in sub-section (1) shall exercise the power to compound an offence, subject to the direction, control and supervision of the State Government.

(3) Every application for the compounding of an offence shall be made in such form and in such manner as may be prescribed.

(4) Where any offence compounded before the institution of any prosecution, no prosecution shall be instituted in relation to such offence, against the offender in relation to whom the offence is so compounded.

(5) Where the composition of any offence is made after the institution of any prosecution, such composition shall be brought by the officer referred to in sub-section (1) in writing to the notice of the court in which prosecution is pending and on such notice of the composition of the offence being given, the person against whom the offence is so compounded shall be discharged." - U.P. ACT NO.15 OF 2018.