Rule 23: Calculation for seventh accounting year
Rule-wise repository containing the operative Gazette text, enabling-section map, forms, implementation controls and evidence requirements.
Rule identity
Notification: G.S.R. 343(E), 8 May 2026
Chapter: CHAPTER V — P AYMENT OF BONUS
Act references detected: section 26
Forms referenced: None expressly detected
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
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.
Paragraph map
- Opening rule proposition
- Any embedded proviso/explanation
- Linked form or appendix, where stated
Implementation control
Translate Rule 23 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.