(1) Any employer who contravenes any of the provisions of sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 12 or fails to pay wages or compensation in accordance with any order of the appellate authority passed under clause (b) of sub-section (2) of section 19 shall, on conviction, be punishable with fine which, for a first offence, may extend to one hundred rupees and, for a second or any subsequent offence shall not be less than one hundred rupees or more than two hundred and fifty rupees.
(2) (a) Any employer who fails to reinstate an employee in accordance with any order of the appellate authority passed under clause (b) of sub-section
(2) of section 19 shall, on conviction, be punishable with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees.
(b) Any employer, who after having been convicted under clause (a), continues to fail to reinstate an employee in accordance with the order mentioned in that clause shall, on conviction be punishable for each day after the previous date of conviction, during which he continues so to offend, with fine which may extend to twenty rupees.
(c) Any Court trying an offence punishable under this sub-section may direct that the whole or any part of the fine reliazed from the accused shall be paid by way of compensation to the person who, in its opinion, has been injured by such failure.
(3) Whoever contravenes any other provision of this Act or any of the rules made under this Act shall, on conviction, be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.
(4) Any compensation required to be paid by an employer under clause
(b) of sub-section (2) of section 19 but not paid by him shall be recoverable as delayed wages under the provisions of the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 (Central Act IV of 1936).