Payment of Wages Act, 1936 — section 3

3. Responsibility for payment of wages. Every employer 3[, including a contractor,] shall be responsible for the payment to persons employed by him of all wages required to be paid under this Act: Provided that, in the case of persons employed (otherwise than by a contractor)

(a)in factories, if a person has been named as the manager of the factory under clause (e) of sub-section (1) of section 9 of the Factories Act, 1934 (XXV of 1934),

(b)in industrial establishments, if there is a person responsible to the employer for the supervision and control of the industrial establishment,

(c)upon railways (otherwise than in factories), if the employer is the railway administration and the railway administration has nominated a person in this behalf for the local area concerned, the person so named, the person so responsible to the employer, or the person so nominated, as the case may be, shall be responsible for such payment. 1 The words “G. G. in C. or” omitted by A. O., 1937. 2 Subs., ibid., for “L. G” 3 Ins. by the Labour Laws (Amdt.) Ordinance, 1972 (9 of 1972), s.2 and Sch.