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Short title and commencement.  \n2. Interpretation.  \n3 Application.  \n4. General increase in wages.  \n5. Prohibition of alteration of rates of wages.  \n6. Provisions relating to increases granted prior to, enactment of this Act.  \n7. Recovery of arrears.  \n8. Where wages payable otherwise than monthly.  \n9. Agreements designed to evade this Act.  \n10. Other offences and penalties.  \n11. Powers of labour officers.  \n12. Amendment of minimum wages order.  \n1  \nTHE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA  \nNo. 22 OF 1974  \n20TH AUGUST, 1974  \nAn Act to make provision for a general revision of wages and salaries  \nand for purposes connected therewith  \n[lst MAY, 1974]  \nENACTED by the Parliament of the United Republic of Tanzania.  \n1. This Act may be cited as the Wages and Salaries (General Revision) Act, 1974 and shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of May, 1974.  \n2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-''commercial enterprise'' means the carrying on for gain of any business,  \ntrade, profession or other similar activity;\"effective date'' means the first day of May, 1974;  \n\"employment'' means employment under a contract of service and includes casual employment; and the expression ''employer''and ''employee'' shall be construed accordingly;  \nShort title and commencement  \nInterpretation  \n''factory'' shall have the meaning assigned to that expression in the  \nFactories Ordinance; Cap. 297  \n''industrial enterprise'' means the processing or manufacture of any material or product at a factory;  \n''Minister'' means the Minister for the time being responsible for matters relating to labour;  \n''place of employment'' means the place where an employee normally carries out the duties imposed upon him by his contract of service;  \nProvided that where an employee's normal place of employment is in an urban area he shall be continued to be paid at the rates applicable to urban area, notwithstanding that he is required from time to time to carry out his duties in a rural area;  \nCap. 300  \nApplication  \n\"statutory minimum wage'' means the basic minimum wage payable to an employee at a rate prescribed by a wages regulation order made under section 10 (3C) of the Regulation of Wages and Terms of Employment Ordinance;  \n''technical assistance project'' means a project wholly or partly financedor materially aided from outside the United Republic and approved by the Minister for Finance as being a technical assistance project;  \n''technical assistance officer'' means a person other than a citizen of the United Republic, who is employed in the United Republic in connection with any technical assistance project and who is paid from funds financed by a foreign Government or an international aid agency, and in the event ofany doubt whether any employee is a technical assistance officer, a certificate in writing by the Principal Secretary to the Treasury certifying whether or not such person is a technical assistance officer shall be conclusive proof of the matters stated therein;  \n''urban area'' means-  \n(a) any area within the jurisdiction of a municipal council or town council and includes, where any area which was on or before the 1st day of January, 1972 an area within the jurisdiction of a municipal council or town council but has since that date, been placed or is hereinafter placed within the jurisdiction of a district council or two or more district councils, the area within the jurisdiction of such district council or each of such district councils;  \n(b) any area within a township;  \n(c) any area within the ward or settlement in which the district headquarters of a district or the regional headquarters of a region is situate;  \n(d) any area which the Minister, may, by notice in the Gazette, declare to be an urban area for the purposes of this Act;  \n\"wages'' means the emoluments payable by the employer to his em","cbCaifQ3s4phrgI7","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifQ3s4phrgI7","pdf",50116,"English","# Short title and commencement\n# Interpretation\n# Application\n# General increase in wages\n# Prohibition of alteration of rates of wages\n# Recovery of arrears\n# Agreements designed to evade this Act\n# Other offences and penalties\n# Powers of labour officers\n# Amendment of minimum wages order","[{\"question\":\"What does the Act allow and when does it take effect?\",\"answer\":\"The Act may be cited as the Wages and Salaries (General Revision) Act, 1974, and it is deemed to have come into operation on the first day of May, 1974.\"},{\"question\":\"Which employees are covered by the Act and what are the main exclusions?\",\"answer\":\"The Act applies to employees generally but excludes specified categories such as persons employed in the service of the United Republic, certain local authority employees, members of the Unified Teaching Service, specified community-related employees, persons receiving monthly wages above the stated threshold, religious workers, and technical assistance officers.\"},{\"question\":\"How are monthly wages required to change under the Act?\",\"answer\":\"Subject to the Act, monthly wages of employees to whom it applies must be increased with effect from the effective date, and employers are liable to pay the increased wages in lieu of wages payable immediately before that date.\"}]","THE WAGES AND SALARIES (GENERAL REVISION) ACT, 1974 - Arrangement of Sections - Short title and commencement - Interpretation | PDF",1789970830]