Short title extent and application

-1 1. Short title extent and application.-

1. (1) This Act may be called the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965.
2. (2) It extends to the whole of India 2***.
3. (3) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, it shall apply to--
   • (a) every factory; and
   • (b) every other establishment in which twenty or more

persons are employed on any day during an accounting

year:

3*[ Provided that the appropriate Government may, after giving not less than two months' notice of its intention so to do, by notification in the Official Gazette, apply the provisions of this Act

with effect from such accounting year as may be specified in the

notification, to any establishment or class of establishments [including an establishment being a factory within the meaning of sub-

clause (ii) of clause (m) of section 2 of the Factories Act, 1948 (63

of 1948)] employing such number of persons less than twenty as may be specified in the notification; so, however, that the number of persons so specified shall in no case be less than ten.]

1. (4) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, the provisions of

subsequent accounting year:

4*[

Provided that in relation to the State of Jammu and kashmir,

the reference to the accounting year commencing on any day in the year

1968 and every subsequent accounting year:]

1*[

the reference to the accounting year commencing on any day in the year

subsequent accounting year.]

1. (5) An establishment to which this Act applies 2*** shall continue

section (3)].