GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY

LABOUR DEPARTMENT

No.1331/AIL/Lab./G/2016.

Puducherry, the 23rd March 2016.

NOTIFICATION

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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.

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LA GAZETTE DE L’ETAT

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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:-

1. (1) This Act may be called the Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Act, 2015.

(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of April, 2014.

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.-

(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:-

‘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.’

4. In section 38 of the principal Act, for sub-section (1), the following

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.

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Short title and

commencement.

Amendment of

section 2.

Amendment of

section 12.

Amendment of

section 38.

21 of 1965

11 of 1948