Section 3 — Responsibility for payment of wages.

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[3. Responsibility for payment of wages.—(1) Every employer shall be responsible for the payment 

of all wages required to be paid under this Act to persons employed by him and in case of persons 

employed,— 

(a) in factories, if a person has been named as the manager of the factory under clause (f) of         

sub-section (1) of section 7 of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948); 

(b) in industrial or other establishments, if there is a person responsible to the employer for the 

supervision and control of the industrial or other establishments; 

(c) upon railways (other than in factories), if the employer is the railway administration and the 

railway administration has nominated a person in this behalf for the local area concerned; 

                                                           
1. Subs. by Act 68 of 1957, s. 3, for clause (vi) (w.e.f. 1-4-1958.) 

2. Subs. by Act 41 of 2005, s. 3, for “the State Government” (w.e.f. 9-11-2005). 

3. Subs. by s. 5, ibid., for section 3 (w.e.f. 9-11-2005). 



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(d) in the case of contractor, a person designated by such contractor who is directly under his 

charge; and 

(e) in any other case, a person designated by the employer as a person responsible for complying 

with the provisions of the Act, 

the person so named, the person responsible to the employer, the person so nominated or the person so 

designated, as the case may be, shall be responsible for such payment. 

(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), it shall be the responsibility of the 

employer to make payment of all wages required to be made under this Act in case the contractor or the 

person designated by the employer fails to make such payment.]