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| (1) Any employer who fails to pay any sum required to be paid to an employee of such employer under section 4 or who fails to comply with the provisions of section 9 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand rupees or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment, and shall, In addition, be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty rupees for each day on which the offence is continued after conviction. |
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| (2) Upon the conviction by a court of an employer for an offence by reason of the failure of such employer to pay any sum required to be paid to an employee of such employer under section 4, the court may, in addition to any other penalty which It may have imposed for such offence, order such employer to pay such sum to such employee, within a period specified in the order, and if such sum Is not so paid, such sum may be recovered and paid to such, employee on the order of the court as If it were a fine imposed by the court. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts