Payment of Wages Act, 1936
Section 12A: Deductions for recovery of loans
The Payment of Wages Act, 1936 was repealed and replaced by the Code on Wages, 2019 from 21 November 2025. It still applies to matters and proceedings from before that date, as the repealing law provides.
Deductions for recovery of loans granted under clause
(fff) of sub-section (2) of section 7 shall be subject to any rules made by [appropriate Government] regulating the extent to which such loans may be granted and the rate of interest payable thereon.]
Source: India Code (Legislative Department), the text of the Act as it stood before its repeal. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.
Supreme Court judgments citing the section 12A
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