1 - Short title, extent, commencement and application.
2 - Definitions.
3 - Responsibility for payment of wages.
4 - Fixation of wage-periods.
5 - Time of payment of wages.
6 - Wages to be paid in current coin or currency notes or by cheque or crediting in bank account.
7 - Deductions which may be made from wages.
8 - Fines.
9 - Deductions for absence from duty.
10 - Deductions for damage or loss.
11 - Deductions for services rendered.
12 - Deductions for recovery of advances.
12A - Deductions for recovery of loans.
13 - Deductions for payments to co-operative societies and insurance schemes.
13A - Maintenance of registers and records.
14 - Inspectors.
14A - Facilities to be afforded to Inspectors.
15 - Claims arising out of deductions from wages or delay in payment of wages and penalty for malicious or vexatious claims.
16 - Single application in respect of claims from unpaid group.
17 - Appeal.
17A - Conditional attachment of property of employer or other person responsible for payment of wages.
18 - Powers of authorities appointed under section 15.
19 - [Omitted].
20 - Penalty for offences under the Act.
21 - Procedure in trial of offences.
22 - Bar of Suits.
22A - Protection of action taken in good faith.
23 - Contracting out.
24 - Delegation of powers.
25 - Display by notice of abstracts of the Act.
25A - Payment of undisbursed wages in cases of death of employed person.
26 - Rule-making power.

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