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TRUCK AMENDMENT ACT 1887 - SECT 5

Order for goods as a deduction from wages illegal.

5. In any action brought by a workman for the recovery of his wages, the
employer shall not be entitled to any set off or counterclaim in respect of
any goods supplied to the workman by any person under any order or direction
of the employer, or any agent of the employer, and the employer of a workman
or any agent of the employer, or any person supplying goods to the workman
under any order or direction of such employer or agent, shall not be entitled
to sue the workman for or in respect of any goods supplied by such employer or
agent, or under such order or direction, as the case may be.

Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to anything excepted by
section twenty-three of the principal Act.

© 1887 Crown Copyright

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