Payment of Wages Act, 1936 — section 10

10. Deductions for damage or loss..—(1) A deduction under clause (c) of sub-section (2) of section 7 shall not exceed the amount of the damage or loss caused to the employer by the neglect or default of the employed person and shall not be made until the employed person has been given an opportunity of showing cause against the deduction, or otherwise than in accordance with such procedure as may be prescribed for the making of such deductions.

(2)All such deductions and all realizations thereof shall be recorded in a register to be kept by the person responsible for the payment of wages under section 3 in such form as may be pres cribed. 11. Deductions for services rendered. A deduction under clause (d) or clause (e) of sub section (2) of section 7 shall not be made from the wages of an employed person unless the house accommodation, amenity or service has been accepted by him, as a term of employment or otherwise, and such deduction shall not exceed an amount equivalent to the value of the house accommodation, amenity or service supplied and, in the case of a deduction under the said clause (e), shall be subject to such conditions as 3* * * the 1[Provincial Government] may impose. 12. Deductions for recovery of advances. Deductions under clause (f) of sub-section (2) of section 7 shall be subject to the following conditions, namely:

(a)recovery of an advance of money given before employment began shall be made from the first payment of wages in respect of a complete wage-period, but no recovery shall be made of such advances given for traveling-expenses;

(b)recovery of advances of wages not already earned shall be subject to any rules made by the 1[Provincial Government] regulating the extent to which such advances may be given and the installments by which they may be recovered. 1 Subs. by A. O., 1937, for “L.G.”. 2 Explanation ins. by the Payment of Wages (Amdt.) Act, 1937 (22 of 1937), s. 2. 3 The words “the G. G. in C. or” omitted by A. O., 1937. 13. Deductions for payments to co-operative societies and insurance schemes. Deductions under clause (j) 1[and clause (k)] of sub-section (2) of section 7 shall be subject to such conditions as the 2[Provincial Government] may impose.