Amendment of section 20 of Act IV of 1936

In section 17 of the principal Act, in sub-section (1),—

1. (1) for clause (b), the following shall be substituted, namely:— “(b) by an employed person; or any legal practitioner or any official of a registered trade union authorised in writing to act on his behalf or a representative union registered as such under the Bombay Industrial Relations Act, 1946, or any Inspector under this Act, or any other person authorised by an authority to make an application under sub-section
2. (2) of section 15, and (in the case of the death of the employed person) his legal representative, as the case may be, if the total amount of wages claimed to have been withheld from the employed person, or from the unpaid group to which the employed person belonged, exceeds fifty rupees, or ”
3. (2) after the first proviso, the following shall be added, namely:— “ Provided further that, when the order or direction appealed against was made by any person who holds or has held office of or above the rank of a District Judge or a judicial member of the Industrial Court constituted under the Bombay Industrial Relations Act, 1946, the presiding officer of a Tribunal constituted under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, an appeal under this section shall lie to the High Court.”