Minimum Wages Act, 1948
22D. Payment of undisbursed amounts due to
employees
All amounts payable by an employer to an
employee as the amount of minimum wages of the employee under this Act or
otherwise due to the employee under this Act or any rule or order made
thereunder shall if such amounts could not or cannot be paid to the employee on
account of his death before payment or on account of his whereabouts not being
known be deposited with the prescribed authority who shall deal with the money
so deposited in such manner as may be prescribed.