Amendment of section 3 of Act XI of

In section 3 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (hereinafter referred to as " the principal Act "),—

1. (1) in clause
   • (a) of sub-section (1),—
   • (a) in sub-clause (i), the words, figures and letters ", before the 31st day of December 1959 " shall be deleted ; and the following proviso shall be added at the end, namely :— " Provided that, the State Government may, instead of fixing minimum rates of wages under this sub-clause for the whole State, fix such rates for a part of the State, and in the case of an employment under any local authority the State Government may fix such rates for any specified local authority, or class of local authorities ;" ;
   • (b) in sub-clause (ii), the words, figures and letters ", before the 31st day of December 1959 " shall be deleted ;
   • (c) in sub-clause (iii), the following provisos shall be added at the end, namely :— " Provided that, the State Government may, instead of fixing minimum rates of wages under this sub-clause for the whole State, fix such rates for a part of the State : Provided further that, where the State Government has not for any reason fixed the minimum rates of wages in respect of any such employment before the expiry of one year from the date of such notification, nothing contained in this sub-clause shall, after the commencement of the Minimum Wages (Maharashtra Amendment) Act, 1960, prevent the State Government from fixing the minimum rates of wages in respect of such employment even after the expiry of the said period of one year ;" ;
2. (2) to sub-section 1A, the following proviso shall be added, namely :— " Provided that, where the State Government has not for any reason fixed the minimum rates of wages in respect of any scheduled employment within one year from the date on which it came to a finding as aforesaid in respect of such employment, nothing contained in this sub-section shall, after the commen- cement of the Minimum Wages (Maharashtra Amendment) Act, 1960, prevent the State Government from fixing the minimum rates of wages in respect of such employment even after the expiry of the said period of one year ".