1. (1) This Act may be called the Payment of Wages (Amendment) Act, 2017.
(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 28th day of December, 2016.
2. For section 6 of the Payment of Wages Act, 1936, the following section shall be
substituted, namely:—
"6. All wages shall be paid in current coin or currency notes or by cheque or by
crediting the wages in the bank account of the employee:
Provided that the appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official
Gazette, specify the industrial or other establishment, the employer of which shall
pay to every person employed in such industrial or other establishment, the wages
only by cheque or by crediting the wages in his bank account.".
Short title and
commencement.
Substitution of
section 6 of Act
4 of 1936.
Wages to be paid
in current coin or
currency notes or
by cheque or
crediting in bank
account.
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REGISTERED NO. DL—(N)04/0007/2003—17
MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE
(Legislative Department)
New Delhi, the 16th February, 2017/Magha 27, 1938 (Saka)
The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the
15th February, 2017, and is hereby published for general information:—
3. (1) The Payment of Wages (Amendment) Ordinance, 2016 is hereby repealed.
(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under the Payment
of Wages Act, 1936, as amended by the said Ordinance, shall be deemed to have been done
or taken under the corresponding provisions of the said Act, as amended by this Act.