 am no 188 of 1985tim payment of bonus (second amendment) bill, 1985 a  billfurther to amend th payment of bonus act, 1965 be it enacted by parliament in the thirty-sixth year of the- republic of india as follows:-1 (1) this act may be called the payment of bonus (second amendment) act, 1985 short title co 5 (2) it shall be deemed to have come into force on the 7th day of november, 1985 'idcdee mollt and application (3) the amendments made by this act in the payment of bonus 21 of it66 ,act, 1965 (hereinafter referred to as the principal act) shall, in relation to a factory or other establishment to which the principal act applies, 10 have effect and be deemed always to have had eftect in respect of the accounting year commencing on any day in the year 19m and in rebpect of every subsequent accounting year e~lllnation-the words and expreutont which are ulld in thll sub-section and which are deftned in the principal act shall have the 15 tanings respectively assisned to them in the pridclpal act a  meat of section~ j in section 2 of the principal act, in clause (13), for the words "ou thousand ana six hundred rupees", the words "two thousand and five hundred rupees" shall be substituted 3 in the principal act, after section 11, the following section shall be inserted, namely:-' 5 insertion of new section 12 "12 where the salary or wage of an employee exceeds on thousand and six hundred rupees per mensem, the bonus payable '-sucil employee under section 10 or, the case may be, under sectioil 11, shall be calculated as if his salary or wage were one thousand and six hundred rupees per mensem" 18 calculation of bonus with respect to certain em-ioyees repeal aad savin, 6011985 8ofl985 4 (1) the payment of bonus (amendment) ordinance, 1985 and the payment of bonus (second amendment) ordinance, 1985 are hereby repealed (2) notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken ,under the principal act, as amended by the said ordinances shall be ,deemed to have been done or taken under the principal act, as amend- 15 ed by this act  ,'\ t~'payment of bonus (second amendnsnt) bill, 1985~1 page 2, cla lse 3, in the marginal heading to pro~ed se-ctioo 12,-f2!: "emloyees" ~ "employees" 2 page 2, line 8,-j after "or," insert "as" 10 3' pal~e 3, line 24,-after - payment" insert "ef" ~ page 4, line 11,-i2!: " terns" ~ " terms" t ' , new delhi: nvember 22 1995 agrahayana i, 1'07 {sakal the payment of somis act, 1965, as originally enacted in 196&, provided for payment of bonus to persons employed in any industry to do any skilled or unskilled manual, supervisory managerial administrative technical or clerical work for hire or reward and drawing salary or wages 110t exceeding rs 1600 per mensem section 12 of the act, as originally enacted, however, provided, that where the salary or wage of an employee exceeded rs 750 per mensem, the bonus payable to him shall be calculated as if his salary or wage were rs 750 per mensem this section was omitted by the payment of bonus (amendment) act, 1985, with a view to securing the computation of bonus payable under the act in the case of employees drawing salary or wages exceeding rs 750 per mensem on the basis of the salary or wage actually df'\wn by them after the enactment of this amendment act, there ~ave been demand!' that, having regard to the periodic revision of wages of employees land other relevant circumstances, the omission of section 12 of the act should be made applicable with respect to bonus payable for the accounting year commencing on any day in the year 1984 and that the eligibility limit for payment of bonus contained in the definition of "e~ployee" in the act should be suitably raised 2 with a view to making available the benefit of the payment of bonus (amendment) act, 1985 in respect of the accounting year commencing on any day in the year 1984 in relation to employees in all factories or establishments to which the payment, bonus act, 1965 applies, the president promulgated on the 27th september, 1985, in view of the impending festival season, the payment of bonus (amendment) ordinance, 1985 after the promulgation of the aforementioned ordinance, government decided that the eligibility limit for the payment of bonus as provided for in the definition of "employee" in the payment of bonus act, 1965, should be raised from rs 1600 to rs 2500, subject to the condition that the bonus payable to an employee drawing salary or wages exceeding rs 1600 per mensem, shall be calculated as if his salary or wages were rs 1600 per mensem it was also decidedlo make these changes applicable in respect of the bonus payable under the' act for the accounting year commencing on any day in the year 1984 and every sub-::equent accounting year accordingly, the president promulgated on the 7th november, 1985, in view of tht; impending festival season, the payment of bonus (second amendment) ordinance, 1985  3 the bill seeks to replace the aforesaid ordinancesnsw delhi; t anjaiah the 18th november, 1985  erraac'l' nom thbpaymdt of bonus act, 1965 (21 of 1965)     bel· alti  2 in this act, unless the context otherwise requires,-     (13) "employee" means any person (other than an apprentice) employed on a salary or wage not exceeding one thousand and sixhundred rupees per mensem' in any industry to do any skilled or unskilled manual, supervisory, managerial, administrative, technical or clerical work for hire or reward, whether the terns of employment be express or implied;      ---,  a billfurther to amend the payment of bonus act, 1965 (shri t an;iah, mitwlster of labour) 