Payment of Wages Act, 1936
17.
Appeal
(1)
An appeal against an order dismissing either wholly or in part an application made
under sub-section (2) of section 15 or against a direction made under
sub-section (3) or sub-section (4) of that section may be preferred within
thirty days of the date on which the order or direction was made in a
Presidency-town before the Court of Small Causes and elsewhere before the
District Court -
(a) by the employer or other person responsible for the payment of wages
under section 3 if the total sum directed to be paid by way of wages and
compensation exceeds three hundred rupees or such direction has the effect of
imposing on the employer or the other person a financial liability exceeding
one thousand rupees or
(b) by an employed person or any legal practitioner or any official of a
registered trade union authorised in writing to act on his behalf or any
Inspector under this Act or any other person permitted by the authority to make
an application under sub-section (2) of section 15 if the total amount of wages
claimed to have been with held from the employed person exceeds twenty rupees or
from the unpaid group to which the employed person belongs or belonged exceeds
fifty rupees or
(c) by any person directed to pay a penalty under sub-section (4) of
section 15.
(1A)
No appeal under clause (a) of sub-section (1) shall lie unless the memorandum
of appeal is accompanied by a certificate by the authority to the effect that
the appellant has deposited the amount payable under the direction appealed
against.
(2)
Save as provided in sub-section (1) any order dismissing either wholly or in part
an application made under sub-section (2) of section 15 or a direction made
under sub-section (3) or sub-section (4) of that section shall be final.
(3)
Where an employer prefers an appeal under this section the authority against
whose decision the appeal has been preferred may and if so directed by the
court referred to in sub-section (1) shall pending the decision of the appeal
withhold payment of any sum in deposit with it.
(4)
The court referred to in sub-section (1) may if it thinks fit submit any
question of law for the decision of the High Court and if it so does shall
decide the question in conformity with such decision.