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Monday, February 13, 2012

529 A - Overriding preferential payments

The order is as below:-

workmen's* due and secured creditors (pari passu)

*:- workmen means as defined in Industrial Disputes Act, 1947:-

"workman"  means  any  person  (including  an  apprentice) employed in  any  industry  to  do  any  manual,  unskilled,  skilled,  technical, operational,  clerical or  supervisory  work  for  hire  or  reward, whether the terms of employment be express or implied, and for  the purposes  of any  proceeding under  this Act  in  relation  to  an  industrial dispute,  includes any  such person who has been dismissed,  discharged or  retrenched in  connection with, or as a consequence of,  that dispute,  or whose  dismissal, dischasrge or retrenchment has led  to that dispute, but does not include any such person--
 
 (i) who is subject to the Air Force Act, 1950 (45 of  1950), or the  Army Act,  1950 (46 of 1950),  or the Navy Act, 1957 (62 of 1957); or
(ii) who  is employed in the police service or as an officer or other employee of a prison; or
(iii)  who   is  employed   mainly  in   a   managerial   or administrative capacity; or
(iv) who,  being employed  in a  supervisory capacity, draws wages exceeding  one thousand  six hundred  rupees  per mensem or exercises, either by the nature of the duties attached to  the office  or by  reason  of  the  powers vested  in   him,  functions  mainly  of  a  managerial nature.
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