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Industrial Disputes Act (No. 27 of 1966) - Sect 65

Power of Commissioner or trade union to recover by suit money due to a workman. [ 13, 4 of 1962.]

44B.
(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other written law-
(a) a suit for the recovery of any sum due under this Act from any employer to any workman may be instituted in a court of competent jurisdiction in the name of the Commissioner or in [the name of a trade union of which that workman is a member;
(b) any sums due under this Act from an employer to two or more workmen may be sued for in a single suit instituted in the name of the Commissioner or in the name of a trade union of which those workmen are members ;
(c) a suit for the recovery of any sum due under this Act from any employer to any workman shall be maintainable if it is instituted within two years after that sum has become due ;
(d) in any such suit instituted in the name of the Commissioner, he may be represented by any Deputy or Assistant Commissioner or any labour officer ; and
(e) in any such suit instituted in the name of a trade union, such union may be represented by any of its officers.
(2) For the purposes of this section, " sum of money " includes, where any benefit is due under this Act from an employer and where such benefit is capable of being computed in terms of money, such amount as may be determined by the court in which the action for the recovery of the value of such benefit is brought.

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