Contents of the Wages Rules (Lakshadweep)

The Code on Wages (Lakshadweep) Rules, 2025

Rule 17. Conditions regarding recovery of advance under section 23

Chapter III — Payment of WagesMade under The Code on Wages, 2019F. No. 08/01/2024-LE&T, 15 Jun 2026

Official text

The recovery, as the case may be 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, shall be made by the employer from the wages of the concerned employee in installments determined by the employer, so as any or all installments in a wage period shall not exceed fifty percent of the wages of the employee in that wage period and the particulars of such recovery shall be recorded in the register maintained in Form-I.

Source: The Code on Wages (Lakshadweep) Rules, 2025, F. No. 08/01/2024-LE&T — Lakshadweep Gazette Extraordinary Vol. LXII, No. 20, p. 8 of the PDF. Open our copy at p. 8 · official download · all sources