Payment of Wages Act, 1936
Section - 1 - Short title, extent, commencement and applicationSection - 2 - Definitions
Section - 3 - Responsibility for payment of wages
Section - 4 - Fixation of wage-periods
Section - 5 - Time of payment of wages
Section - 6 - Wages to be paid in current coin or currency notes or by cheque or crediting in bank account
Section - 7 - Deductions which may be made from wages
Section - 8 - Fines
Section - 9 - Deductions for absence from duty
Section - 10 - Deductions for damage or loss
Section - 11 - Deductions for services rendered
Section - 12 - Deductions for recovery of advances
Section - 12A - Deductions for recovery of loans
Section - 13 - Deductions for payments to co-operative societies and insurance schemes
Section - 13A - Maintenance of registers and records
Section - 14 - Inspectors
Section - 14A - Facilities to be afforded to Inspectors
Section - 15 - Claims arising out of deductions from wages or delay in payment of wages and penalty for malicious or vexatious claims
Section - 15A - Liability for payment of court-fees
Section - 16 - Single application in respect of claims from unpaid group
Section - 17 - Appeal
Section - 17A - Conditional attachment of property of employer or other person responsible for payment of wages
Section - 18 - Powers of authorities appointed under section 15
Section - 19 - Power to recover from employer in certain cases
Section - 20 - Penalty for offences under the Act
Section - 20A - Composition of offences
Section - 21 - Procedure in trial of offences
Section - 22 - Bar of suits
Section - 22A - Protection of action taken in good faith
Section - 23 - Contracting out
Section - 24 - Delegation of powers
Section - 25 - Display by notice of abstracts of the Act
Section - 25A - Payment of undisbursed wages in cases of death of employed person
Section - 26 - Rule making power
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