(1) If in any accounting year an establishment in public sec- "tor sells any products manufactured by it or renders any services, in competition with an establishment in private sector, and the income from such sale or services or both is not less than twenty per cent, of the gross income of the establishment in public sector for that year, then, the provisions of this Ordinance shall apply in relation to such establishment in public sector as they apply in relation to a like establishment in private sector.
(2) An establishment in public sector to which this Ordinance applies shall continue to be governed by this Ordinance notwithstanding that in any subsequent accounting year its income from the sale of products manufactured by it or from services rendered or from both, in competition with an establishment in private sector, falls below twenty per cent, of its gross income for that accounting year.
21. Where any money is due to an employee by way of bonus from his employer under a settlement or an award, the employee himself or any other person authorised by him in writing in this behalf, or in the case of the death of the employee, his assignee or heirs may, without prejudice to any other mode of recovery, make an application to the appropriate Government for the recovery of the money due to him, and if the appropriate Government or such authority as the appropriate Government may specify in this behalf is satisfied that any money is so due, it shall issue a certificate for that amount to the Collector who shall proceed to recover the same in the same manner as an arrear of land revenue:
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Provided that every such application shall be made within one year from the date on which the money became due to the employee from the employer:
Provided further that any such application may be entertained after the expiry of the said period of one year, if the appropriate Government is satisfied that the applicant had sufficient cause for not making the application within the said period.
Explanation.—In this section and in sections 22, 23, 24 and 25, "employee" includes a person who is entitled to the payment of bonus under this Ordinance but who is no longer in employment.
22, Where any dispute or difference arises between an employer and his employees with respect to the calculation of bonus under this Ordinance or with respect to the application of this Ordinance to an establishment in public sector, then, such dispute shall be deemed to be an industrial dispute within the meaning of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, or of any corresponding law relating to investigation and settlement of industrial disputes in force in a State and the provisions of that Act or, as the case may be, such law, shall, save as otherwise expressly provided, apply accordingly.