The Minimum Wages (Manipur Amendment) Act, 1992

ActNo..................... . ‘ Date ofAssent'.:.,....,......,_ Date of Publicatnon ....... THE MINIMUM WAGES (MANIPUR AMEIDMENT) $5, 1992. BILL to amend the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (No,- 11 : of 1948) BE it enacted by the Legislature of Manipur in tho Forty-thitd Yearof the Republic of India as follows:— 1. Short title and commencementi—( 1) This Act may be called the MinimumWages (Manipur Amendment) Act, 1992. (2)_ It shall come into force on Inch date as the State Gammon: may,by notification in the official gazette, appoint. 2 2. Insertion of section 22-CG.-—-Inthe Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (No. 21 of 1948) below section 22-C, the following section shall be inserted, namely— “22-CC—-—-Compounding of ofiences.—-An officer specially empowered by the State Government in this behalf by notification in the official gazette may, subject to any general or special order of the State Government in this . behalf, compound any offence punishable under this Act with fine only ‘ committed for the first time either before or after the institution of the ‘ mmxiweb”: ofmm fee ashe ' fit, not exceeding the maxinmm amount of 'fin fixed fm’fin W, and where the offence is so compounded— ‘(zj before theimfitufion 1Hmumwfiefi fl*mt h liable to prosecution for such ofi‘cnce end shall, if in custody,\be set at liberty; (ii) after the institution of the prosecution, the composition shall amount to acquittal of the ofi'ender.”.