Rule 19: Conditions regarding recovery of advance

Rule-wise repository containing the operative Gazette text, enabling-section map, forms, implementation controls and evidence requirements.

Effective 8 May 2026Source review: 16 July 2026Sections: 23

Rule identity

Notification: G.S.R. 343(E), 8 May 2026

Chapter: CHAPTER IV — P AYMENT OF WAGES

Act references detected: section 23

Forms referenced: Form IV

Operational reading

Read every sub-rule, clause, proviso and explanation in sequence.
Treat the full Gazette text below as the controlling rule text in this repository.
Check whether a State rule, sector-specific instrument or later notification governs the establishment.
Map the rule to payroll configuration, form, register, notice, authority and evidence.

Enabling and linked Code sections

Section 23

Deductions for recovery of advances

Open section analysis and compliance consequence.

Official rule text

Extracted from the English part of the Gazette PDF bundled with the production repository. Formatting is normalised; the signed Gazette PDF prevails.

19. Conditions regarding recovery of advance:–– The recovery of,––– (i) advances of money given to an employee after the employment begins under clause (b) of section 23; or (ii) advances of wages to an employee not already earned under clause (c) of section 23, as the case may be, shall be made by the employer from the wages of the concerned employee in instalments determined by the employer, so as any or all instalments in a wage period, shall not exceed ﬁfty per cent of the wages of the employee subject to the ceiling speciﬁed in rule 13 in that wage period and the particulars of such recovery shall be recorded in the register maintained in Form-IV.

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Paragraph map

Implementation control

Translate Rule 19 into a named owner, payroll/HR system control, prescribed form or register, due date, reviewer and retained evidence. Where the rule delegates criteria to a special or general order, verify that order rather than inventing a threshold.

Evidence checklist

current Gazette and later amendment check
applicable employee/establishment classification
calculation, register, form or notice required by the rule
approval and submission/payment evidence
exception and remediation log

Failure consequence

Failure can support a wage/bonus claim, an inspection observation, adjudication or prosecution depending on the linked Code provision. Apply sections 45, 49 and 51–56 as relevant.

Primary sources

Ministry of Labour — Code on Wages (Central) Rules, 2026 ↗

India Code — Code on Wages, 2019 ↗

Ministry Labour Codes library ↗

Last official-source review: 16 July 2026.

Reliance note: Read the current Gazette/India Code text, the applicable Central or State rules and later notifications before acting. This repository is educational and does not replace matter-specific legal advice.