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| (1) Any employer who fails to pay a sum required to be paid to a worker of such employer under this law shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction before a Magistrate 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. |
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| (2) Upon conviction by the Magistrate's Court of an employer for an offence by reason of the failure of such employer to pay any sum required to be paid to a worker of such employer under this Law, 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 worker, within a period specified in the order, and if such sum is not so paid, such sum may be recovered and paid to such worker on the order of the court. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts