4. Amendment of section 44 of the principal enactment

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

Section 44 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the repeal of subsections (1) and (2) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following:—

“(1) Every employer who fails to pay wages to any worker in accordance with the provisions of section 21, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not less than five thousand rupees and not exceeding ten thousand rupees or to imprisonment of either description of a term not exceeding one year or to both such fine and imprisonment, and shall in addition, be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees for each day on which the offence is continued after conviction.

(2)

Every employer, other than an employer referred to in subsection (1), who fails to make to any worker, any payment in accordance with any provision of this

Part of this Ordinance or of any decision of a Wages

Board, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not less than five thousand rupees and not exceeding ten thousand rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding one year or to both such fine and imprisonment, and to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees for each day on which the offence is continued after conviction.”.

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