14. The following section is hereby inserted immediately after section 45, and shall have effect as section 45A, of the principal enactment: -
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45A. Where a person (hereafter in this section referred to as the contractor) who has undertaken to execute any work enters into a contract with any other person (hereafter in this section referred to as the sub-contractor) for the execution by the sub-contractor of the whole or any part of that work, then, if the sub-contractor fails to pay wages in accordance with section 21 to any worker employed by him in the performance of that contract, the contractor shall be liable to pay the wages due to that worker in accordance with that section.". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts