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GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY
LABOUR DEPARTMENT
No.1331/AIL/Lab./G/2016.
Puducherry, the 23rd March 2016.
NOTIFICATION
The notification of the Ministry of Law and Justice (Legislative Department), Government of India, New Delhi published in the Gazette of India, dated 1st January 2016, Extraordinary, No. 6, Part-II, Section-1 is hereby republished for general information of the public.
(By order)
R. DJEACOUMAR,
Under Secretary to Government (Labour).
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LA GAZETTE DE L'ETAT
[ PART-I
MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE
(Legislative Department)
New Delhi, the 1st January, 2016/
Pausha 11, 1937 (Saka)
The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 31st December, 2015, and is hereby published for general information:-
THE PAYMENT OF BONUS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2015 (No. 6 OF 2016)
[31st December, 2015]
An Act
further to amend the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
S h ort t i t le a n d
1. (1) This Act may be called the Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Act, 2015. commencement.
(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of April, 2014.
Amendment of
2 1 o f 1 9 6 5 section 2.
2. In section 2 of the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), in clause (13), for the words "ten thousand rupees", the words "twenty-one thousand rupees" shall be substituted.
3. In section 12 of the principal Act.-
Amendment of
section 12.
(i) for the words "three thousand and five hundred rupees" at both the places where they occur, the words "seven thousand rupees or the minimum wage for the scheduled employment, as fixed by the appropriate Government, whichever is higher" shall respectively be substituted:
(ii) the following Explanation shall be inserted at the end, namely:-
1 1 o f 1 9 4 8 'Explanation.- For the purposes of this section, the expression "scheduled employment" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in clause (g) of section 2 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948.'
Amendment of
4. In section 38 of the principal Act, for sub-section (1), the following section 38.
sub-section shall be substituted, namely:-
"(1) The Central Government may, subject to the condition of previous publication, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules to carry out the provisions of this Act".
DR. G. NARAYANARAJU Secretary to the Government of India.