Deduction from salary to meet society's claim in certain cases

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, a member of a society may execute an agreement in favour of the society providing that his employer shall be competent to deduct from the salary or wages payable to him by the employer, such amount as may be specified in the agreement and to pay the amount so deducted to the society in satisfaction of any debt or other demand owing by the member to the society. (2) On the execution of such agreement, the employer shall, if so required by the society by a requisition in writing and so long as the society does not intimate that the whole of such debt or demand has been paid, make the deduction in accordance with the agreement and pay the amount so deducted to the society within seven days of such deduction. Such payment shall be valid discharge of the employer of his liability to pay the amount so deducted and paid to the society. (3) If after the receipt of a requisition made under sub-section (2), the employer at any time fails to deduct the amount specified in the requisition from the salary or wages payable to the member concerned or makes default in remitting to the society the amount so deducted, the society shall be entitled to recover any such amount from the employer as arrears of land revenue. (4) Nothing contained in this section shall apply to establishment under the Railway administration operating any railway, as defined in clause (20) of article 366 of the Constitution.