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Labour Legislations

Notes 12.4 Offences and Penalties (Sec. 20)

1) Whoever being responsible for the payment of wages to an employed person:
a) fails to pay wages in title;

b) makes unauthorised deductions from wages;
c) impose fines in contravention of Sec. 8;
Shall be punishable with fine, which shall not be less than two hundred rupees but which
may extend to rupees one thousand.
2) Whoever:
a) fails to fix wages periods or fixed wage periods exceeding one month;
b) fails to pay wages on a working day;
c) fails to pay wages in current coins or currency or both;

d) fails to record fines and all realisations in the register;
e) fails to apply all such realisations as per the provisions of Section 8(8).
Shall be punishable with fine which may extend to rupees five hundred for each
offence.
3) Whoever being required under this Act to maintain any record or to furnish any information
or return:

a) fails to maintain such registers or records; or
b) wilfully refuses or without lawful excuse neglects to furnish such information or
return; or

c) wilfully furnishes or causes to be furnished any information or return which he
knows to be false; or
d) refuses to answer or wilfully gives a false answer to any question necessary for
obtaining any information required to be furnished under this Act;
Shall, for each such offence, be punishable with fine which shall not be less than two
hundred rupees but which may extend to one thousand rupees.
4) Whoever:
a) wilfully obstructs an Inspector in the discharge of his duties under this Act; or
b) refuses or wilfully neglects to afford an Inspector any reasonable facility for making
any entry, inspection, examination, supervision or inquiry authorised by or under
the Act in relation to any railway, factory or industrial or other establishment; or
c) wilfully refuses to produce on the demand of an Inspector, any register or other
document kept in pursuance of the Act; or

d) prevents or attempts to prevent any person from appearing before an inspector
acting in pursuance of his duties under the Act.
shall be punishable with fine which shall not be less than two hundred rupees but
which may extend to one thousand rupees.
5) If any person who has been convicted of any offence punishable under the Act is again
guilty of an offence involving contravention of the same provision, he shall be punishable

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