Minimum Wages (Indian Labour) (Amendment) Act 2021

This Act may be cited as the Minimum Wages

(Indian Labour) (Amendment) Act, No. 3 of 2021.

Section 4 of the Minimum Wages (Indian Labour)

Ordinance (Chapter 135) (hereinafter referred to as the

“principal enactment”) is hereby amended by the substitution for the words “fourteen years,” of the words “sixteen years,”.

Section 11 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:—

by the substitution in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) thereof, for the words “fourteen years” of the words “sixteen years”;

by the substitution in subsection (2) thereof, for the words “fourteen years” of the words “sixteen years”.

Section 18 of the principal enactment is hereby amended in the definition of the expression “minimum rates of wages” by the substitution for the words “fifteen years” of the words “sixteen years”.

In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail.