explain the duties of competent authority according payment of wages Act.
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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 24[clause (t) of sub-section (1) of section 7 of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948)];
25[(b) in industrial or other establishments, if there is a person responsible to the employer for the supervision and control of 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 responsible to the employer, or the person so nominated, as the case may be 26[shall also be responsible] for such payment.
4. Fixation of wage-periods- (1) Every person responsible for the payment of wages under section 3 shall fix periods (in this Act referred to as wage-periods) in respect of which such wages shall be payable.
(2) No wage-period shall exceed one month.
5. Time of payment of wages- (1) The wages of every person employed upon or in-
(a) any railway, factory or 27[industrial or other establishment] upon or in which less than one thousand persons are employed, shall be paid before expiry of the seventh day,
(b) any other railway, factory or 27[industrial or other establishment],
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 24[clause (t) of sub-section (1) of section 7 of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948)];
25[(b) in industrial or other establishments, if there is a person responsible to the employer for the supervision and control of 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 responsible to the employer, or the person so nominated, as the case may be 26[shall also be responsible] for such payment.
4. Fixation of wage-periods- (1) Every person responsible for the payment of wages under section 3 shall fix periods (in this Act referred to as wage-periods) in respect of which such wages shall be payable.
(2) No wage-period shall exceed one month.
5. Time of payment of wages- (1) The wages of every person employed upon or in-
(a) any railway, factory or 27[industrial or other establishment] upon or in which less than one thousand persons are employed, shall be paid before expiry of the seventh day,
(b) any other railway, factory or 27[industrial or other establishment],
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