Section 60:
Deduction from salary to meet multi-State co-operative society’s claim in certain cases.
(1)
Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, a member of a multi-State cooperative
society may execute an agreement in favour of that society providing that his employer
disbursing his salary or wages shall be competent to deduct every month from the salary or wages payable
to him, such amount as may be specified in the agreement and to pay the amount so deducted to the
society in satisfaction of any debt or other demand the member owes to the society.
(2) On the execution of such agreement, the employer disbursing the salary or wages of the members
shall, if so required by the multi-State co-operative society, by a requisition in writing and so long as the
society does not intimate that the whole of such debt or other demand has been paid, make the deduction
in accordance with the agreement and pay the amount so deducted to the society within a period of
fourteen days of the date on which deduction has been made, as if it were a part of the salary or wages
payable on the day as required under the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 (4 of 1936), and such payment
shall be valid discharge of the employer for his liability to pay the amount deducted.
(3) If after the receipt of a requisition made under sub-section (2), the employer disbursing the salary
or wages of the member at any time fails to deduct the amount specified in the requisition from the salary
or wages payable to the member concerned or makes default in remitting the amount deducted to the
multi-State co-operative society, the society shall be entitled to recover any such amount from such
employer as arrears of land revenue and the amount so due from such employer shall rank in priority in
respect of the liability of such employer equal to that of the salary or wages in arrears.