Section 18 — Maintenance of registers and records.

18. Maintenance of registers and records.—(1) Every employer shall maintain such registers and 

records giving such particulars of employees employed by him, the work performed by them, the wages 

paid to them, the receipts given by them and such other particulars and in such form as may be prescribed.  

(2) Every employer shall keep exhibited, in such manner as may be prescribed, in the factory, 

workshop or place where the employees in the scheduled employment may be employed, or in the case of 

out-workers, in such factory, workshop or place as may be used for giving out-work to them, notices in 

the prescribed form containing prescribed particulars.  

(3) The appropriate Government may, by rules made under this Act, provide for the issue of wage 

books or wage slips to employees employed in any scheduled employment in respect of which minimum 

rates of wages have been fixed and prescribe the manner in which entries shall be made and authenticated 

in such wage books or wage slips by the employer or his agent.