Minimum Wages (Indian Labour) Ordinance (Chapter 135).

This Ordinance shall be read and construed as one with the Service Contracts Ordinance, the Estate Labour (Indian) Ordinance, and the Indian Immigrant Labour Ordinance.
No employer shall knowingly employ for work on estates any child below the age of fourteen years, or knowingly permit such child to be employed (Sec.4). It shall be lawful for the Minister by notification in the Gazette to appoint for any administrative district an Estate Wages Board composed of five members, none of whom shall be members of the Board of Indian Immigrant Labour (Sec.5). Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, an Estate Wages Board shall, from time to time as occasion may require, fix minimum rates of wages for time-work performed on estates within its jurisdiction (Sec.8). The Ordinance further makes proviiosns, inter alia, for: powers of the Board of Indian Immigrant Labour over minimum rates; approval of rates by Minister and publication in Gazette; Liability for the employer to issue monthly allowance of rice or or to supply free meals; penalty for failure to pay minimum rates.