Payment of Wages Act, 1991
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Modes of payment of wages. |
2.—(1) Wages may be paid by and only by one or more of the following modes: | |
(a) a cheque, draft or other bill of exchange within the meaning of the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882 , | ||
(b) a document issued by a person who maintains an account with the Central Bank of Ireland or a holder of a licence under section 9 of the Central Bank Act, 1971 , which, though not such a bill of exchange as aforesaid, is intended to enable a person to obtain payment from that bank or that holder of the amount specified in the document, | ||
(c) a draft payable on demand drawn by a holder of such a licence as aforesaid upon himself, whether payable at the head office or some other office of the bank to which the licence relates, | ||
(d) a postal, money or paying order, or a warrant, or any other like document, issued by or drawn on An Post or a document issued by an officer of a Minister of the Government that is intended to enable a person to obtain payment from that Minister of the Government of the sum specified in the document, | ||
(e) a document issued by a person who maintains an account with a trustee savings bank within the meaning of the Trustee Savings Banks Act, 1989 , that is intended to enable a person to obtain payment from the bank of the sum specified in the document, | ||
(f) a credit transfer or another mode of payment whereby an amount is credited to an account specified by the employee concerned, | ||
(g) cash, | ||
(h) any other mode of payment standing specified for the time being by regulations made by the Minister after consultation with the Minister for Finance. | ||
(2) Where wages fall to be paid to an employee by a mode other than cash at a time when, owing to a strike or other industrial action affecting a financial institution, cash is not readily available to the employee, the employer concerned shall, if the employee consents, pay the wages by another mode (other than cash) specified in subsection (1) and, if the employee does not so consent, pay them in cash. | ||
(3) An employer who pays wages to an employee otherwise than by a mode specified in subsection (1) or contravenes subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £1,000. |