Minimum Wages Act, 1948
Section 27: Power of State Government to add to Schedule
The Minimum Wages Act, 1948 was repealed and replaced by the Code on Wages, 2019 from 21 November 2025. It still applies to matters and proceedings from before that date, as the repealing law provides.
The appropriate Government, after giving by notification in the Official Gazette not less than three months' notice of its intention so to do, may, by like notification, add to either Part of the Schedule any employment in respect of which it is of opinion that minimum rates of wages should be fixed under this Act, and thereupon the Schedule shall in its application to the State be deemed to be amended accordingly.
Source: India Code (Legislative Department), the text of the Act as it stood before its repeal. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.
Supreme Court judgments citing the section 27
- Ahmedabad Pvt. Primary Teachers' Association v. Administrative Officer and Ors.
- Airfreight Ltd. v. State of Karnataka and Ors.
- Haryana Unrecognised Schools Association v. State of Haryana
- Arnold Rodricks & Anr. v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.
- Basant Kumar Sarkar and Others v. Eagle Rolling Mills Ltd. and Others
- Mohammad Hussain Gulam Mohammad and Another v. The State of Bombay and Another
- The Edward Mills Co. Ltd., Beawar, and Others v. The State of Ajmer and Another.