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GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY

LABOUR DEPARTMENT

No. 215/AIL/Lab./G/2017.

Puducherry, the 2nd February 2017.

NOTIFICATION

The Ordinance of the Ministry of Law and Justice (Legislative

Department), Government of India, New Delhi, published in the Gazette of India,

dated 28th December, 2016, Extraordinary No. 62, 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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MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE

(Legislative Department)

New Delhi, the 28th December, 2016/Pausha 7, 1938 (Saka).

THE PAYMENT OF WAGES (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE, 2016

Promulgated by the President in the Sixty-seventh Year of the Republic

of India.

An Ordinance further to amend the Payment of Wages Act, 1936.

Whereas, the Payment of Wages (Amendment) Bill, 2016 has been

introduced in the House of the People on the 15th December, 2016 and is pending

in that House;

And whereas, Parliament is not in session and the President is satisfied

that circumstances exist which render it necessary for him to take immediate

action;

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of

Article 123 of the Constitution, the President is pleased to promulgate the

following Ordinance:-

1. (1) This Ordinance may be called the Payment of Wages (Amendment)

Ordinance, 2016.

(2) It shall come into force at once.

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".

PRANAB MUKHERJEE,

President.

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Dr. G. NARAYANA RAJU,

Secretary to the Government of India.

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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.