1. Short title, extent, commencement and application.- (1) This Act may be called the Payment of Wages Act, 1936. (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. (4) It applies in the first instance to the payment of wages to persons employed in any factory, to persons employed (otherwise than in a factory) upon any railway by a railway administration or, either directly or through a sub-contractor, by a person fulfilling a contract with a railway administration, 6[and to persons employed in an industrial or other establishment specified in sub-clauses (a) to (g) of clause (ii) of section 2. (5) The State Government may, after giving three months’ notice of its intention of so doing, by notification in the Official Gazette, extend the provisions of 7[this Act or any of them to the payment of wages to any class of persons employed in 8[any establishment or class of establishments specified by the Central Government or a State Government under sub-clause (h) of clause (ii) of section 2: PROVIDED that in relation to any such establishment owned by the Central Government no such notification shall be issued except with the concurrence of that governments. (6) Nothing in this Act shall apply to wages payable in respect of a wage-period which, over such wage-period, average 10[one thousand six hundred rupees a month or more. | 
