Payment of Wages Act, 1936 — section 17

17. Appeal..—(1) An appeal against a direction made under 2[sub-section (3) or sub-section

(4)] of section 15 may be preferred, within thirty days of the date on which the direction was made, 3 * * * before the 4[Labour Court constituted under the Industrial Relations Ordinance, 1969 (XXIII of 1969), within whose jurisdiction the cause of action to which the appeal relates arose]

(a)by the employer or other person responsible for the payment of wages under section 3, if the total sum directed to be paid by way of wages and compensa tion exceeds three hundred rupees [:]5 6 [Provided that no appeal under this clause shall lie unless the memorandum of appeal is accompanied by a certificate of the authority to the effect that the appellant has deposited with the authority the amount payable under the direction appealed against, or]. 7 [(b) by an employed person or, if he has died, by any of his heirs, if the total amount of wages claimed to have been withheld from the employed person or from the unpaid group to which he belonged exceeds fifty rupees, or]

(c)by any person directed to pay a penalty under 8[sub-section (4)] of section 15. 1 Subs. by the Labour Laws. (Amdt.) Act, 1976 (II of 1976), s. 2 and Sch., for clause (b). 2 Subs. by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1937 (20 of 1937), s. 2 and 1st Sch., for “sub-section (3)”. 3 The words “in a Presidency-town [or in Rangoon] before the Court of Small Causes and elsewhere” omitted by A. O., 1949. The words within crotchets were omitted by A. O., 1937. 4 Subs. by the Labour Laws (Amdt.) Act, 1975 (11 of 1975), s. 2 and Sch., for “District Court”. 5 Subs. by the Labour Laws (Amdt.) Act, 1976 (11 of 1976), s. 2 and Sch., for “or”,. 6 Added ibid. 7 Subs. by the Labour Laws (Amdt.) Act, 1977 (17 of 1977), s. 2 and First Sch., for clause (b). 8 Subs. by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1937 (20 of 1937), s. 2 and 1st Sch., for “sub-section (5)”. 1 [(1A) All appeals pending before any District Court under this section immediately before the commencement of the Labour Laws (Amendment) Act, 1975 , shall , on such commencement stand transferred to, and be disposed of by , the Labour Court within whose jurisdiction the cause of action to which the appeal relates arose.].

(2)Save as provided in sub-section (1), any direction made under sub-section (3) or 2 [sub-section (4)] of section 15 shall be final.