Agricultural Wages (Amendment) Act, 1945
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Interpretation. |
1.—(1) In this Act— | |
the expression “the Principal Act” means the Agricultural Wages Act, 1936 (No. 53 of 1936); | ||
the expression “wages period” means— | ||
(a) in relation to an agricultural worker whose minimum rate of wages is fixed as a monthly rate, a month; | ||
(b) in relation to an agricultural worker whose minimum rate of wages is fixed otherwise than as a monthly rate, a period of any seven consecutive days. | ||
(2) Where the sum paid by an agricultural employer to an agricultural worker as wages in respect of a wages period is less than the sum which ought, at the appropriate minimum rate, to have been paid by the agricultural employer to the agricultural worker as wages in respect of that wages period, then, for the purposes of this Act— | ||
(a) there shall be deemed to have been an underpayment by the agricultural employer to the agricultural worker of wages in respect of that wages period, and | ||
(b) the amount of the underpayment of wages in respect of that wages period shall be taken to be the difference between the said sums. | ||
(3) This Act shall be construed as one with the Principal Act. |