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Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Act 1992
ප්රතිචාර සහ සහායනිල ඉංග්රීසි පරිවර්තනය. එය සිංහල හෝ දෙමළ පාඨයට වඩා වෙනස් නම් බලපවත්වන පාඨය කුමක්දැයි පනතේම සඳහන් වේ.
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PARLIAMENT OF THE DEMOCRATIG
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PAYMENT OF GRATUITY
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ACT, No. 62 OF 1992
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Published as a Supplement to Part If of the Gazette of the Democratie
Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka of November 13, 1992
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Aw Act To AMEND THe PAYMENT or GRATUITY
Act, No..12
or 1983
BE it enacted by the Parliarnent of the Democratic Socialist
Republic’ of Sri. Lanka as follows :—
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This ‘Act may be cited as the Payment of “Gratnity
(Amendment) Act, No. 62 of 1992.
Amendment of section . 5 of Act . . No..12 of | 7,
"2. Section 5 of the Payment of Gratuity Act, No. 12 of of 1983 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal - enact-.
ment”) is hereby amended ‘by the addition of the following new. subsection |
1edi lately . after subsection (3) there-of
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‘(4) Any employer who, being liable to pay any sum due as gratuity to a workman or his heirs, as the case
- may. be, under subsection (1), fails or defaults to pay that sum, on or before the due date, he shall be liable to pay to that workman or his heirs, as the case may be, in addition to the sum due as the gratuity, a surcharge. on that. sum calculated
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where the payment of the gratuity has been m
"arrears for a period pot exceeding one month from the due date. a surcharge of ten per centum of the sum due as gratuity
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©) where the payment of the gratuity has been in arrears for a period exceeding one month but not exceeding three months from the due date, 2
surcharge of fifteen per centum of the sum due as gratuity;
(é) where the payment of the gratuity has been in arrears for a period exceeding three months but not exceeding six months from the due date, a surcharge of twenty per centum of the sum dus as gratuity ;
where the payment of the gratuity has
- been in arrears for a period exceeding six months but not exceeding twelve months from the due date
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due as gratuity
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a surcharge of twenty-five. per ‘centum: of the sum
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where the payment of the gratuity ‘has been in
arrears for a period exceeding twelve months from
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an the due date, a surcharge of thirty per centum of i the sum due as sratuity.
For the purposes of this séction, the expression “due
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- date”, in relation to a gratuity, means the thirtieth day from the date of termination of the services of the workman to whom-the gratuity | is payable.’
Amendment
s 3“Section 8 of the principal enactment is hereby
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immediately after: aubeostion @
thereof :—
‘ (8) For the purposes of this “‘sebbn,. the expression
“ gratuity ” includes any surcharge payable under sub-inconsis-
tency.
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section (4): of section 5.
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