Wages for harvest

(1) The prescribed wages for harvest shall be paid at the threshing floor on which the threshing takes place and no portion of the produce shall be removed from the threshing floor, without payment of the prescribed wages to the agricultural worker concerned. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), where the quantum of prescribed wages is in dispute and such quantum cannot be determined without settling the dispute under the provisions of this Act, an Officer not below the rank of Tahsildar authorised in this behalf by the Government by notification in the Gazette shall, if he is satisfied that the harvested produce if kept in the threshing floor till the settlement of the dispute will perish or be otherwise lost, take such action as he thinks expedient in each case to ensure that the harvested produce does not perish or is not otherwise lost till the settlement of the dispute.