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PAYMENT OF WAGES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 2

Requirements applicable to payments authorised by s.1.

2.(1) A request that any wages may be paid into an account at a bank shall
specify the bank and the branch thereof at which the account is kept and the
person or persons in whose name or names the account stands; and a payment of
wages in accordance with such a request does not fulfil the requirements of
this section unless it is made into the account so specified.

(2) A payment of wages by cheque or by a document mentioned in section 1(3)(e)
does not fulfil the requirements of this section unless the cheque or document
is made payable to, or to the order of, the person to whom the wages are due.

(3) A payment of wages in any of the ways authorised by this Act does not
fulfil the requirements of this section if, in calculating the payment, any
deduction from the gross amount of the wages is made by reason that the
payment is made in that way.

Subs.(4)(7) rep. by 1976 NI28 art.65(3) sch.6

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