Act Number: 39

Act Name: The Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972

Year: 1972

Enactment Date: 1972-08-21

Long Title: An Act to provide for a scheme for the payment of gratuity to employees engaged in factories, mines, oilfields, plantations, ports, railway companies, shops or other establishments and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Labour and Employment

Department:

Section 13: Protection of gratuity.
    No gratuity payable under this Act 1[and no gratuity payable to an employee employed in any establishment, factory, mine, oilfield, plantation, port, railway company or shop exempted under section 5] shall be liable to attachment in execution of any decree or order of any civil, revenue or criminal court.
Notes:
1. Ins. by Act 25 of 1984, s. 6 (w.e.f. 1-7-1984).
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