(1) An advance of any nature(including advances for travelling allowance or conveyance allowance) shall not ‘ordinarily exceed two calendar months’ wages of the employed person. In exceptional circumstances, the amount of such advance, may with the previous sanction of the Regional Labour Commissioner (Central) concerned be made to the extent of ten calendar months’ wages.
(2) The advance may be recovered in instalments by deduction from wages of the employed person spread over not more than twelve months in the case of an ordinary advance and sixty months in the case of an advance granted in exceptional circumstances. In no case shall the amount of an instalment exceed one—fourth of the wages earned in a wage—period.
(3) The amount of all advances sanctioned and repayments thereof shall be entered in a register in Form IX which shall be maintained up—to—date and kept at the establishment or as near to it as possible.
