Section 3
[(3) Where an employer prefers an appeal under this section, the authority against whose decision the appeal has been preferred may, and if so directed by the court referred to in sub-section (1) shall, pending the decision of the appeal, withhold payment of any sum in deposit with it.
3 [(3) Where an employer prefers an appeal under this section, the authority against whose decision the appeal has been preferred may, and if so directed by the court referred to in sub-section (1) shall, pending the decision of the appeal, withhold payment of any sum in deposit with it.
(4) The court referred to in sub-section (1) may, if it thinks fit, submit any question of law for the decision of the High Court and, if it so does, shall decide the question in conformity with such decision.]
STATE AMENDMENT
Karnataka
Amendment of section 17 . — In section 17 of the principal Act,—
(1) in sub-section (2), after the words, brackets and figure "sub-section (4) of that section" the words, brackets, figures and letter, "or any order made under sub-section (1) of section 17A" shall be inserted.
(2) after sub-section (4), the following sub-section shall be added, namely:—
"(5) the provisions of section 5 of the Limitation Act, 1963 shall be applicable to appeals under this section."
[Vide Karnataka Act 2 of 1977, s. 7]
Amendment of section 17 of Act IV of 1936 . — In section 17 of the said Act, in sub -section (1), in clause (b), --
(i) after the words “an employed person” the following shall be inserted namely:-
"or any legal practitioner or any official of a registered trade union authorised in writing to act on act on his behalf or a representative union registered as such under the Bombay Industrial Relations act, 1946, or any Inspector under this Act or any other person authorised by an authority to make an application under sub-section (2) of section 15 and in the case of death of the employed person, his legal representative, as the case may be,";
(ii) for the words “him” and “he” the words “the employed person” shall be substituted.
[Vide Bombay Act XLVIII of 1955, s. 4]
Amendment of section 17 of Act IV of 1936 . — In section 17 of the principal Act, in sub-section (1).—
(1) for clause (b), the following shall be substituted, namely:--
" (b) by an employed person, or any legal practitioner or any official of a registered trade union authorised in writing in writing to act on his behalf, or a representative union registered as such under the Bombay Industrial Relations Act, 1946 (Bom. XI of 1947), or any Inspector under this Act, or any other person authorised by an authority to make an application under sub-section (2) of section 15, and (in the case of the death of the employed person) by his legal representative, as the case may be, if the total amount of wages claimed to have been withheld from the employed person, or from the unpaid group to which the employed person belonged, exceeds fifty rupees, or"