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Unit 12: Payment of Wages Act, 1936

12.8 Self Assessment Notes

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1. The Act applies to the .............................. of India.

2. Value of any .................................................. , of the supply of water, light, medical attendance,
or other amenity or any service excluded from the computation of wages by a general or
specific order of the State Government;

3. The ....................................... may, by a general or special order, exempt the person responsible
for the payment of wages from the operation of the above provisions in certain cases.
4. All payment of wages shall be made on a .................................... (Section 5).

5. The wages of an employed person shall be paid to him without deductions of any kind,
except those authorised under the .........................................
6. .................................... may be made on account of the absence of an employed person from
duty from the place or place where, by the terms of employment, he is required to work.
7. The amount of deduction cannot .............................. an amount equivalent to the value of
house accommodation, amenity or service supplied.
8. ..............................of an advance of money given before employment shall be made from
the first payment of wages in respect of complete wage period, but no recovery can be
made of such advance given for travelling expenses.
9. An Inspector of Factories appointed under the .........................................shall be an inspector
for the purposes of the Payment of Wages Act in respect of all factories within the local
limits assigned to him.
10. Any inquiry under this section shall be deemed to be judicial proceeding within the
meaning of Sections ....................................... of the Indian Penal Code (Sec. 15 (4B)).
11 A contravention of provision dealing with ............................................ or with payment of
wages in current coin or currency notes, except on a complaint made by or with the
sanction of an Inspector under the Act;

12. Any ............................. punishable under Sections 20(3) and 20(4), except on a complaint
made by or with the sanction of an Inspector under the Act.
13. The ...................................... is empowered to make rules to regulate the procedure to be
followed by Authorities and Courts.

12.9 Review Questions

1. What are the deduction under Payment of Wage Act?
2. What are the punishments if payment is not made as per the provisions of this Act?

3. Why is registers mainting is compulsory and how it maintained in this Act?
4. What powers does an inspector have under this Act?

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