Payment of Bonus Act, 1965
19. Time-limit for payment of bonus
20 [All amounts] payable to an employee by way of bonus under
this Act shall be paid in cash by his employer,-
(a) where there is a dispute regarding payment of bonus pending
before any authority under section 22, within a month from the date on which
the award becomes enforceable or the settlement comes into operation, in
respect of such dispute;
(b) in any other case, within a period of eight months from the
close of the accounting year.
PROVIDED that the appropriate government or such
authority as the appropriate government may specify in this behalf may, upon an
application made to it by the employer and for sufficient reasons, by order,
extend the said period of eight months to such further period or periods as it
thinks fit; so, however, that the total period so extended shall not in any
case exceed two years.