Payment of Bonus Act, 1965
24. Audited accounts of banking companies not
to be questioned
(1) Where any dispute of the nature specified in section 22
between an employer, being a banking company, and its employees has been
referred to the said authority under that section and during the course of
proceedings the accounts to the banking company duly audited are produced
before it, the said authority shall not permit any trade union or employees to
question the correctness of such accounts, but the trade union or the employees
may be permitted to obtain from the banking company such information as is
necessary for verifying the amount of bonus due under this Act.
(2) Nothing contained in sub-section (1) shall enable the trade
union or the employees to obtain any information which the banking company is
not compelled to furnish under the provisions of section 34A of the Banking
Regulation Act, 1949 (10 of 1949).]