Payment of Wages Act, 1936

Sections	Payment of Wages Act, 1936
	Preamble

1.	Short title, extent, commencement and application
2.	Definitions
3.	Responsibility for payment of wages
4.	Fixation of wage-periods
5.	Time of payment of wages
6.	Wages to be paid in current coin or currency notes
7.	Deductions which may be made from wages
8.	Fines
9.	Deductions for absence from duty
10.	Deductions for damage or loss
11.	Deductions for services rendered
12.	Deductions for recovery of advances
12A.	Deductions for recovery of loans
13.	Deductions for payments to co-operative societies and insurance schemes
13A.	Maintenance of registers and records
14.	Inspectors
14A.	Facilities to be afforded to Inspectors
15.	Claims arising out of deductions from wages or delay in payment of wages and penalty for malicious or vexatious claims
16.	Single application in respect of claims from unpaid group
17.	Appeal
17A.	Conditional attachment of property of employer or other person responsible for payment of wages
18.	Powers of authorities appointed under section 15
19.	Power to recover from employer in certain cases
20.	Penalty for offences under the Act
21.	Procedure in trial of offences
22.	Bar of suits
22A.	Protection of action taken in good faith
23.	Contracting out
24.	Application of Act to railways, air transport services, mines and oilfields
25.	Display by notice of abstracts of the Act
25A.	Payment of undisbursed wages in case of death of employed person
26.	Rule-making power

Payment of Wages Act, 1936