law: Payment of Wages Act, 1936
  8.
  
  Fines
  (1)
  
  No fine shall be imposed on any employed person save in respect of such acts and
  
  omissions on his part as the employer with the previous approval of the State
  
  Government or of the prescribed authority may have specified by notice under
  
  sub-section (2).
  (2)
  
  A notice specifying such acts and omissions shall be exhibited in the prescribed
  
  manner on the premises in which the employment carried on or in the case of
  
  persons employed upon a railway (otherwise than in a factory) at the prescribed
  
  place or places.
  (3)
  
  No fine shall be imposed on any employed person until he has been given an
  
  opportunity of showing cause against the fine or otherwise than in accordance
  
  with such procedure as may be prescribed for the imposition of fines.
  (4)
  
  The total amount of fine which may be imposed in any one wage-period on any
  
  employed person shall not exceed an amount equal to three per cent of the wages
  
  payable to him in respect of that wage-period.
  (5)
  
  No fine shall be imposed on any employed person who is under the age of fifteen
  
  years.
  (6)
  
  No fine imposed on any employed person shall be recovered from him by
  
  instalments or after the expiry of sixty days from the day on which it was
  
  imposed.
  (7)
  
  Every fine shall be deemed to have been imposed on the day of the act or
  
  omission in respect of which it was imposed.
  (8)
  
  All fines and all realisations thereof shall be recorded in a register to be
  
  kept by the person responsible for the payment of wages under section 3 in such
  
  form as may be prescribed; and all such realisations shall be applied only to
  
  such purposes beneficial to the persons employed in the factory or
  
  establishment as are approved by the prescribed authority.
  Explanation:
  
   When the persons employed upon or in any
  
  railway, factory or industrial or other establishment are part only of a staff
  
  employed under the same management all such realisations may be credited to a
  
  common fund maintained for the staff as a whole provided that the fund shall be
  
  applied only to such purposes as are approved by the prescribed authority.