Payment of Wages Act, 1936 — section 1

1. Short title, extent, commencement and application..—(1) This Act may be called the Payment of Wages Act, 1936. 2 [(2) It extends to the whole of Pakistan.]

(3)It shall come into force on such date3 as the 4[Federal Government] may, by notification in the 5[official Gazette], appoint.

(4)It applies to the payment of wages to persons employed in any factory 6[industrial establishment or commercial establishment] and to persons employed (otherwise than in a factory) upon any railway by a railway administration or, either directly or through a sub-contractor, by a person fulfilling a contract with a railway administration. 6 * * * * * * * 1 For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Gazette of India, 1935, Pt.V, p.20; and for Report of Select Committee, see ibid., pp.77-79. This Act has been extended to

(i)the Leased Areas of Baluchistan, see the Leased Areas (Laws) Order, 1950 (G.G.O.3 of 1950); and applied in the Federated Areas of Baluchistan, see Gazette of India, 1937, Pt.I, p.1499,

(ii)the Khairpur State, see the Khairpur (Federal Laws) (Extension) Order, 1953 (G.G.O.5 of 1953) as amended,

(iii)the Baluchistan State Union, see the Baluchistan State Union (Federal Laws) (Extension) Order, 1953 (G.G.O.4 of 1953),as amended, and

(iv)the State of Bahawalpur by the Bahawalpur (Extension of Federal Laws) Order, 1953 (G.G.O.11 of 1953),as amended. The Act has been and shall be deemed to have been brought into force in Gwadur with effect from 8th September, 1958, by the Gwadur (Application of Central Laws) Ordinance, 1960 (37 of 1960), s.2. The Act has been applied to the Provincially Administered Tribal Areas or to the parts or those areas to which it does not already apply, see, Regulation No. I of 1972, s.2 and Sch. 2 Subs. by the Central Laws (Statute Reform) Ordinance, 1960 (21 of 1960), s.3 and 2nd Sch. (with effect from the 14th October, 1955), for the original sub-section (2) as amended by A.O., 1949, and the Federal Laws (Revision and Declaration) Act, 1951 (26 of 1951), s.8. 3 The 28th March, 1937, see Gazette of India, 1937, Pt.I, p.626. 4 Subs. by the Labour Laws (Amdt.) Act, 1975, (11 of 1975),s.2 and Sch., for “Central Government”, which was subs. by A.O., 1937, for “G.G. in C”. 5 Subs. by A.O., 1937, for “Gazette of India”. 6 Omitted and Ins. by Ord. 2001 (LIII of 2001), s.2 &, Sch. (with effect from 1st July, 2001).