Short title, extent, commencement and application .-(1) This Act may be called The Payment of Wages Act, 1936

Display by notice of abstracts of the Act .-The person responsible for the payment of wages to persons [employed in a factory or an industrial or other establishment] shall cause to be [displayed in such factory or an industrial or other establishment] [ Substituted by Act 38 of 1982, Section 12, for " displayed in such factory" (w.e.f. 15.10.1982).] a notice containing such abstracts of this Act and of the rules made thereunder in English and in the language of the majority of the persons employed [in the factory, or industrial or other establishment] [ Substituted by Act 38 of 1982, Section 12, for " in the factory" (w.e.f. 15.10.1982).], as may be prescribed

Time of payment of wages .-(1) The wages of every person employed upon or in

Fines .-(1) No fine shall be imposed on any employed person save in respect of such acts and omissions on his part as the employer, with the previous approval of [the appropriate Government] or of the prescribed authority, may have specified by notice under sub-section (2)

[ Wages to be paid in current coin or currency notes or by cheque or crediting in bank account. [Substituted by Act No. 1 of 2017, dated 15.2.2017]