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Shop And Office Employees (Amendment) Act (No. 26 of 1966) - Sect 15

Insertion of new sections 50A and 50B in the principal Act

15. The following sections are hereby inserted immediately after section 50, and shall have effect as section 50A and section 50B, of the principal Act: -
50A. The liability of an employer to pay under this Act any sum as remune-ration to any person employed in or about the business of any shop or office shall be a first charge on the assets of that business, notwithstanding anything in any other law.
50B. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other written law-
(a) a suit for the recovery of any sum due under this Act from any employer to any employee may be instituted in any Court of Requests in the name of the Commissioner or in the name of a trade union which is registered under the Trade Unions Ordinance and of which that employee is a member;
(b) any sums due under this Act from an employer to two or more employees may be sued for in a single suit instituted in the name of the Commissioner or in the name of a trade union which is registered under the Trade Unions Ordinance and of which those employees are members ;
(c) a suit for the recovery of any sum due under this Act from any employer to any employee shall be maintainable if it is instituted within four years after that sum has become due;
(d) in any such suit instituted in the name of the Commissioner, he may be represented by any Deputy or Assistant Commissioner of Labour or any inspector of labour ; and
(e) in any such suit instituted in the name of a trade union, such union may be represented by any of its officers.".

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