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(¢). It should not be possible to keep the decree alive for more 
than three years in all I. .. i .e 
(2) Debts should rank preferentially in order of their age Cae 
{e) The possibility of appointing special courts for summary 
liquidation proceedings should be considered is "us 
{f) If the law cannot be applied to the poorer classes generally, 
“¢ industrial workers ”’ would have to be defined, and, in the 
first instance, it may be necessary to limit the operation of 
the measure to scheduled industrial areas with power to 
axtend it to other areas ws 
If a monetary limit is required, the law may be applied only 
to workmen in receipt of wages or salary of less than 
Rs. 100 a month .. . 
During the first three years of the operation of this law the 
amount recoverable might be based on three instead of two 
years’ income and expenditure, and the maximum period 
during which decrees should remain effective may be four 
years instead of three years .. 
186. Apart from the legislation recommended above, the possibility 
of reducing the period of limitation for debts and the period within which 
a decree may be kept alive under the ordinary civil law should be examined 
187. Besetting an industrial establishment for the recovery of 
debts should be made a cognizable offence .. .. . .. 
188. Recruiting advances— 
{a) The recovery of any amount advanced to meet travelling 
expenses to the place of employment should be made illegal, 
(6) Other advances to the worker before actual employment 
begins should be irrecoverable by law, except from the 
first wage payment .. iv 3 . . 
189. Periods of wage payment— 
(a) Employers should adopt a system of weekly payment. 
(b) In textile industries, railway and engineering workshops and 
iron and steel works, the law should require the payment 
of wages to the process operatives at intervals not exceed- 
ing 16 days. The appropriate authority should have the 
power to extend a similar provision to other industries or 
classes of operatives either generally or in particular centres. 
In this connection the case of railway workers outside 
the workshops should be examined, 
(¢) If any reduction is made in the period of wage payment, 
no worker should forfeit any privilege or concession 
which is attached to payment on a monthly basis ss 
190. For industrial employees in factories the legal period of notice 
should in no case exceed a week, whatever the period by which wages 
are paid 
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191. Payment of wages— 
(a) Legislation should be enacted providing for the payment of 
wages within 7 days from the expiry of the period in 
which they have been earned in the ordinary case, and 
as early as possible but not later than 2 days from the date 
of discharge in the case of an operative who is discharged.