**Policy Summary: The Payment of Bonus Amendment Act, 2015**
This document details the Payment of Bonus Amendment Act, 2015, Act No. 6 of 2016, which received presidential assent on December 31, 2015, and is effective from April 1, 2014. The Act amends the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965.
Key amendments include:
* **Section 2:** Revision of the salary eligibility limit for bonus calculations, increasing it from ten thousand rupees to twenty-one thousand rupees.
* **Section 12:** Modification of the wage ceiling for bonus calculations, raising it from three thousand five hundred rupees to seven thousand rupees, or the minimum wage for the scheduled employment as fixed by the appropriate Government, whichever is higher. An explanation is added defining "scheduled employment" with reference to clause (g) of section 2 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948.
* **Section 38:** Amendment to subsection 1, granting the Central Government the authority to establish rules, subject to prior publication in the Official Gazette, to implement the provisions of the Act.
This Act was published by authority in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 1, No. 6, New Delhi, Friday, January 1, 2016.
Dr. G. Narayana Raju, Secretary to the Government of India, is noted as the responsible official.
Key Entities Referenced
Ministry of Law and Justice: The Indian government ministry responsible for legislative affairs.
New Delhi: The capital city of India, where the Legislative Department is located and the notification is issued.
Parliament: The legislative body of the Republic of India that enacted the Payment of Bonus Amendment Act, 2015.
The Payment of Bonus Amendment Act, 2015: A law enacted by the Parliament of India to amend the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965.
Payment of Bonus Act, 1965: The original Act that the Payment of Bonus Amendment Act, 2015 amends.
Republic of India: The nation governed by the constitution under which the act was enacted.
Minimum Wages Act, 1948: An Indian law related to minimum wage standards, referenced in the Payment of Bonus Amendment Act.
Central Government: The executive authority in India responsible for making rules to carry out the provisions of the Payment of Bonus Act.
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MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE
(Legislative Department)
New Delhi, the 1st January, 2016/Pausha 11, 1937 (Saka)
The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the
31st December, 2015, and is hereby published for general information:—
THE PAYMENT OF BONUS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2015
NO. 6 OF 2016
[31st December, 2015.]
An Act further to amend the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
1. (1) This Act may be called the Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Act, 2015. Short title
and
(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of April, 2014.
commencement.
21 of 1965. 2. In section 2 of the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 (hereinafter referred to as the Amendment
principal Act), in clause (13), for the words ‘‘ten thousand rupees’’, the words ‘‘twenty-one of section 2.
thousand rupees’’ shall be substituted.
3. In section 12 of the principal Act,— Amendment
of section 12.
(i) for the words ‘‘three thousand and five hundred rupees’’ at both the places
where they occur, the words ‘‘seven thousand rupees or the minimum wage for the
scheduled employment, as fixed by the appropriate Government, whichever is higher’’
shall respectively be substituted;
(ii) the following Explanation shall be inserted at the end, namely:—2 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART II—SEC. 1]
‘Explanation.—For the purposes of this section, the expression
‘‘scheduled employment’’ shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in
clause (g) of section 2 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948.’.
Amendment of 4. In section 38 of the principal Act, for sub-section (1), the following sub-section shall 11 of 1948.
section 38. be substituted, namely:—
‘‘(1) The Central Government may, subject to the condition of previous publication,
by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules to carry out the provisions of this
Act.’’.
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DR. G. NARAYANA RAJU,
Secretary to the Govt. of India.
PRINTED BY THE GENERAL MANAGER, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA PRESS, MINTO ROAD, NEW DELHI
AND PUBLISHED BY THE CONTROLLER OF PUBLICATIONS, DELHI—2016.
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