Agricultural Wages (Amendment) Act, 1945

Provisions relating to incapacitated agricultural workers.

5.—Where—

(a) proceedings, whether criminal or civil, are commenced, on or after the date of the passing of this Act, in relation to an alleged underpayment by an agricultural employer to an agricultural worker of wages in respect of a wages period, and

(b) the agricultural employer proves that the agricultural worker was so affected by physical injury or mental deficiency or any infirmity due to age or any other cause as to have been incapacitated from earning wages in respect of that wages period at the appropriate minimum rate,

then, for the purpose of such proceedings, the agricultural worker shall be deemed to have been granted a permit under section 18 of the Principal Act exempting the employment of such worker unconditionally from the provisions of the Principal Act requiring wages to be paid to him in respect of that wages period at not less than the said minimum rate.