18. Deduction of rent from salary or wages. - (1) Without prejudice to the provisions of any other act, any person may execute an agreement in favour of the competent authority, providing that the employer under whom he is employed, shall be competent to deduct 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 competent authority in satisfaction of the rent and other charges due to him in respect of the premises allotted. Upon the execution of such agreement the employer shall notwithstanding anything contained in the Payment of Wages Act, 1936, make if so required by the competent authority in writing, deduction of the amount so deducted to the competent authority or such other official as may be authorized by him, and the employer shall be liable for any amount paid in contravention of this requisition. (2) If the employer fails to pay the competent authority the amount deducted under sub-section (1) within 30 days from the date of service of a notice in that behalf, or pays any amount to the employee in contravention of the requisition under the said sub-section, the amount deducted or which he so pays with all costs of recovery shall be recoverable as arrears of land revenue.
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