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45. Responsibility for payment of wages
and compensation.- (1) An employer
shall be responsible for payment of wages to
each building worker employed by him and such
wages shall be paid on or before such date as
may be prescribed.
(2) In case the contractor
fails to make payment of compensation in respect
of a building worker employed by him, where
he is liable to make such payment when due,
or makes short payment thereof, then, in the
case of death or disablement of the building
worker, the employer shall be liable to make
payment of that compensation in full or the
unpaid balance due in accordance with the provisions
of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 (8 of
1923), and recover the amount so paid from the
contractor either by deduction from any amount
payable to the contractor under any contract
or as a debt payable by the contractor.
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