PAYMENT OF WAGES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970

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PAYMENT OF WAGES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 1



1.(1) If an employed person requests his employer to pay his wages in a way
specified in the request, being one of the ways authorised by this Act, and
the employer agrees to that request, nothing in the enactments mentioned in
subsection (2) shall operate

(a)so as to render that request, or the employer's agreement thereto,
unlawful; or

(b)so as to render unlawful or invalid any payment of wages to which the
request applies if, at a time while the request and agreement remain in force,
the payment is made in the way specified in the request and the requirements
of section 2 are fulfilled in relation thereto.

(2) The said enactments (in this Act referred to as "the specified
enactments") are

(a)sections 1 and 3 of the Truck Act 1831 (which render unlawful and invalid
any contract to pay, or payment of, wages to an artificer otherwise than in
the current coin of the realm); and

(b)section 1 of the Hosiery Manufacture (Wages) Act 1874 (which requires all
contracts for wages to which that Act applies to make the wages payable in the
current coin of the realm), and section 3 of that Act (which imposes
penalties) except in so far as it relates to deductions from wages.

(3) The following ways of payment are authorised by this Act, that is to say,

(a)payment into an account at a bank, being an account standing in the name of
the person to whom the payment is due, or an account standing in the name of
that person jointly with one or more other persons;

(b)payment by postal order;

(c)payment by money order;

(d)payment by cheque;

(e)payment by any document issued by a customer of a bank which, though not a
bill of exchange, is intended to enable a person to obtain payment from that
bank of the sum mentioned in the document.

(4) Any request made by an employed person as mentioned in subsection (1)
shall be made by notice in writing given to his employer.

(5) An employer may signify his agreement to such a request either by notice
in writing given to the employed person or by paying the wages in the way
specified in the request.

(6) Any such request

(a)shall cease to have effect if, before the end of the period of fourteen
days beginning with the day on which the notice containing the request is
given, the employer gives to the employed person notice in writing that he
refuses the request; and

(b)in any other case, shall cease to have effect at the end of that period
unless before the end thereof the employer has signified his agreement to the
request as mentioned in subsection (5).

(7) A request under subsection (1) may be made in respect of part of the wages
of an employed person and, in relation to any such request, any reference in
this Act to a payment of wages shall be construed as a reference to a payment
of such part of the wages as may be specified in the request.

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PAYMENT OF WAGES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 1