The PAYMENT OF WAGES (ASSAM AMENDMENT) ACT, 1969
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 PlJBLIS.EIED BY AU'l110 R1TY

No.6 aa.m .. ,, Thursday, January 22, 1970, 2ad Maglla,

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###### GO VER NMENT OF ASS.A:M

ORDERS SY THE GOVERNOR

LAW DEPARTMENT

NOTIFICATION

The 21st J anuary 197U

No.LJL.47/65/13.-The following Act of the Assam Legislative Assem•

bly whic;h received the asseni of the President is hereby published for
general infonnation.

ASSAM ACT I OF 1970

[llecelved the aHent of the President on the 15th January, 1970]

(Publbhcd in the Assa7/I _Ga;:,ette, Extraordinary, dated the 22nd January 1970)_

THE PAYMENT OF WAGES (A~SAM AMENDMENT) ACT, 1969

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Act

furtla.•r te am.end the Paym.ent of Wages Act, 1936 in it•

###### application to the ltate of AHam

                      - camlillc. Whereas it is expedien~ further to uua4 6•

Payment of Wages Act, 1936, hereinafter called 1h• Ccatral Act
principal Act, in its applicalion to the State of ~~3 IV of

Assam, in the manner hereinafter appearing ; 6 ·


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###### It is hereby enacted in the Twentieth Year of the
Republic of India as follows:-

Short title, I. - (i: This Act may be called the Payment of

cXomtent aeiad Wages (Assam Amendment) Act, 1969.
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ment.
(2) h extends to the State "f Assam.

(S) I~ shall come into force on such date as the

State Government may, by notification in the Official
Gazette, appoint.

Amen~mu1t 2. In s~ction 6 of the principal Act, the following

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~f;:~:. ;y. 11~ proviso and the Explanation shall be added,

HIZCi. namely :-

"Provided th11t notwithstanding; anything con-

tained in the Payment cf Bonus Act, 1965, one-third
of the amount bf any bonus payable to an employed
person in a particular year in excess of rupees forty
may be paid or mvested into the National Defence
t.:ertificates or National Savings Certificates (First
Issue), if the said employed person records his assent
by furnishing a 1no-objection certificate, in the manner
to be prescribed, to hi5 employer.

_Explanation.-Fcr the_ purposes of this section, the

expression (1 J "Wages" shall include any bonus of the
description given in sub-clause (1) of clause (vi) ef
section 2 ; and (2) "bonus'' means bonus payable to ..
an employed person under the terms of employment or
under an award or settlement or order of a Court,
and also includes any bonus of the description

"given_in !ub-clauso (1) of clause (vi) of section !."

B. SARMA,

Secy. to the Go..-t. of Assam,

Law Departm~t. ·

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8IDLLO?(G •- Pri11ted avd published by the S11pcrinicD4.~. A-t»

Government Pre11 (Ex-Gazette) No. 11-1,334+20--2!·1-1970


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