Agricultural Wages (Amendment) Act, 1945

Order for payment of underpayments of wages in proceedings for an offence under section 19 of the Principal Act.

3.—(1) Where proceedings are commenced, on or after the date of the passing of this Act, against an agricultural employer charging him with an offence under section 19 of the Principal Act in relation to any alleged underpayment by him to an agricultural worker of wages in respect of a wages period, the Court may, whether there is a conviction or not, if satisfied that there has been an underpayment by the agricultural employer to the agricultural worker of wages in respect of any wages period falling wholly or partly within the two years immediately preceding the date on which the proceedings were commenced, order the agricultural employer to pay to the agricultural worker a sum equal to the amount of the underpayment of wages in respect of that wages period.

(2) Subsection (4) of section 19 of the Principal Act shall cease to apply to proceedings commenced, on or after the date of the passing of this Act, against an agricultural employer charging him with an offence under section 19 of the Principal Act in relation to an alleged underpayment by him to an agricultural worker of wages in respect of a wages period.