12. Payment of minimum rates of wages.—(1) Where in respect of any scheduled employment a
notification under section 5
4
*** is in force, the employer shall pay to every employee engaged in a
scheduled employment under him wages at a rate not less than the minimum rate of wages fixed by such
notification for that class of employees in that employment without any deductions except as may be
authorised within such time and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed.
(2) Nothing contained in this section shall affect the provisions of the Payment of Wages Act, 1936
(4 of 1936).
1. Subs. by Act 30 of 1957, s. 6, for “committees, sub-committees, advisory committees and the advisory sub-committees
appointed under sections 5 and 6”
2. The words “advisory committee, advisory sub-committees” omitted by s. 7, ibid.
3. Subs. by s. 8, ibid., for section 10.
4. The words and figures “or section 10” omitted by s. 9, ibid.
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