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Reckoning of piece work.
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21.—(1) If piece work wages are paid by any employer to any worker or outworker in respect of any industrial work the amount of work done shall be reckoned by such employer for the purpose of ascertaining the piece work wages to be paid in respect thereof in such a manner that such worker or outworker shall have an opportunity of checking the result of such reckoning before each payment of such wages.
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(2) For reckoning the amount of work done for the purpose of ascertaining the piece work wages to be paid in respect thereof an automatic machine (in this Act referred to as an automatic reckoner) may be used and if any automatic reckoner is made and operated in accordance with this Act an opportunity of observing the amount reckoned by such automatic reckoner shall be deemed to be an opportunity of checking the amount of work reckoned by such automatic reckoner.
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(3) Every automatic reckoner shall comply with the following conditions, that is to say:—
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(a) the indicator shall not show the amounts of work reckoned in symbols other than letters and figures used with their ordinary significance,
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(b) the indicator shall be fixed in such a position that it may be easily read by workers employed to do the industrial work the amount of which is ascertained by the automatic reckoner,
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(c) the indicator shall be clean and legible,
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(d) the automatic reckoner shall be accurate in its results and shall be maintained in good repair and working order,
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(e) all particulars which may be necessary for the purpose of ascertaining from the indicator the amount of industrial work reckoned by an automatic reckoner shall be legibly marked on such automatic reckoner,
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and any automatic reckoner which does not comply with the said conditions shall be deemed not to be made and operated in accordance with this Act.
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(4) If any employer reckons otherwise than in accordance with this section the amount of any form of industrial work done by any worker for piece work wages such employer shall be guilty of an offence under this section.
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