Payment of Wages Act, 1936

Section - 1 - Short title, extent, commencement and application

Section - 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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