law: Payment of Wages Act, 1936
  3.
  
  Responsibility for payment of wages
  Every
  
  employer shall be responsible for the payment to persons employed by him of all
  
  wages required to be paid under this Act:
  Provided
  
   that in the case of persons employed
  
  (otherwise than by a contractor) -
  (a)
  
  in factories if a person has been named as the manager of the factory under
  
  clause (f) of sub-section (1) of section 7 of the Factories Act 1948 (63 of
  
  1948);
  (b)
  
  in industrial or other establishments if there is a person responsible to the
  
  employer for the supervision and control of the industrial or other
  
  establishments;
  (c)
  
  upon railways (otherwise than in factories) if the employer is the railway
  
  administration and the railway administration has nominated a person in this
  
  behalf for the local area concerned.
  The
  
  person so named the person so responsible to the employer or the person so
  
  nominated as the case may be shall also be responsible for such payment.