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LABOUR ACT (CHAPTER 93) LABOUR (PAYMENT OF WAGES BY CHEQUE) RULES

LABOUR ACT

(CHAPTER 93)

LABOUR (PAYMENT OF WAGES BY CHEQUE) RULES

S 24/75

REVISED EDITION 2002

(15th April 2002)

Labour

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

LABOUR (PAYMENT OF WAGES BY CHEQUE) RULES

ARRANGEMENT OF RULES

Rule

1. Citation.

2. Payment of wages by cheque.

3. Revocation of consent.

4. Section 113(4) not to operate to give worker right of recovery.

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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

Rules under section 121

LABOUR (PAYMENT OF WAGES BY CHEQUE) RULES

Commencement: 1st April 1975

Citation.

1. These Rules may be cited as the Labour (Payment of Wages by Cheque)Rules.

Payment of wages by cheque.

2. (1) Subject to subrule (2) nothing in section 110 or 111 of theLabour Act shall operate so as to the render unlawful or invalid any payment ofwages by the employer to the worker with the worker’s prior writtenconsent in any of the following ways —

(a) payment into an account at a bank in Brunei Darussalam being anaccount in the name of the worker;

(b) payment by cheque made payable to or to the order of theworker.

(2) No employer shall pay the wages of any workers in any of the ways setout in subrule (1) of this rule, except with the prior approval in writing ofthe Commissioner of Labour.

Revocation of consent.

3. The consent of the worker under rule 2, may be revoked by him atany time by notice in writing given to the employer:

Provided that such notice shall take effect not earlier than 14 days from thedate on which the notice is served on the employer.

Section 113(4) not to operate to give worker right of recovery.

4. Where the wages or part thereof have been paid in accordance withthese Rules, subsection (4) of section 113 of the Act shall not operate to givena right of recovery of so much of the wages as have been so paid.