17. Section 48 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the addition, at the end of that section, of the following new subsection : -
| " (3) On the conviction of an employer under subsection (1) of the offence of failing or refusing to allow a worker any holiday required to be allowed to that worker under any decision of a Wages Board, the court may, in addition to any other sentence, order the employer, where no portion of the remuneration due to that worker in respect of that holiday has been paid, to pay such remuneration, or, where only a portion of such remuneration has been paid, to pay the balance. Any sum ordered to be paid under this subsection may be recovered in the same manner as a fine. ". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts