Section 10: Provisions as to orders fixing wages and other conditions

(1)
Where an industrial wages board has recommended any wages or any other condition of employment, or the cancellation or variation of any such wages or condition fixed under subsection (2) of this section, the board shall forthwith send notification thereof to the Minister; and the notification may include a statement of the date from which the board recommends that the wages or condition, or the cancellation or variation, as the case may be, shall become effective.
(a) the Minister may, if he thinks fit, refer the recommendation back to the industrial wages board;
(b) the board shall thereupon reconsider it having regard to any observations made by the Minister and may, if it thinks fit, re-submit the recommendations to the Minister either without amendment or with such amendments as it thinks fit, having regard to those observations; and
(c) where recommendations are so re-submitted, the like proceedings shall be had thereon as in the case of original recommendations.
(2) The Minister, on receipt of a notification under this section with respect to any matter, shall by order fix the wages or condition or conditions, or approve the cancellation or variation, as the case may be:
Provided that-
(a) the Minister may, if he thinks fit, refer the recommendation back to the industrial wages board;
(b) the board shall thereupon reconsider it having regard to any observations made by the Minister and may, if it thinks fit, re-submit the recommendations to the Minister either without amendment or with such amendments as it thinks fit, having regard to those observations; and
(c) where recommendations are so re-submitted, the like proceedings shall be had thereon as in the case of original recommendations.
(3) Any such wages or conditions as aforesaid, or the cancellation or variation of any such wages or conditions, shall become effective from such date (being the date of the order by which they are fixed or approved or a subsequent date) as is specified in that behalf in the order.
(4) Wages and conditions fixed under this section are hereafter in this Act referred to as "statutory minimum wages" or "statutory minimum conditions"