The Goa Shops and Establishments Act, 1973 — Physical PDF page 13 of 23

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     (j) deductions for payments to co-operative societies approved in this behalf by the
  Government or any officer authorised by them in this behalf or to a scheme of
  Insurance maintained by the Indian Post Office or the Life Insurance Corporation of
  India established under the Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956 (Central Act 31 of
  1956);
     (k) deductions made with the written authorisation of the employee.
   33. Fines.— (1) No fine shall be imposed on any employee save in respect of such acts
and omissions on his part as the employer, without the previous approval of the
Government or of the prescribed authority, may have specified by notice under sub-
section (2).
  (2) A notice specifying such acts and omissions shall be exhibited in the prescribed
manner in the premises in which the employment is carried on.
   (3) No fine shall be imposed on any employee until he has been given an opportunity
of showing cause against the fine, or otherwise than in accordance with such procedure as
may be prescribed for the imposition of fines.                 e
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  (4) The total amount of fine which may be imposed in any one wage-period on any
employee shall not exceed an amount equal to three paise in the rupee of the wages
payable to him in respect of that wage-period.     aC
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    (5) No fine shall be imposed on any employee who has not completed the age of
fifteen years.
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   (6) No fine imposed on any employee shall be recovered from him after the expiration,
of sixty days from the day on which it was imposed.
   (7) Every fine shall be deemed to have been imposed on the day of the act or omission
in respect of which it was imposed.
   (8) All fines and all realisations thereof shall be recorded in a register to be kept by the
employer in such form as may be prescribed; and all such realisations shall be applied
only to such purposes beneficial to the employees in the establishment as are approved by
the prescribed authority.
   Explanation.— When the employees are only part of a staff employed under the same
management, all such realisations may be credited to a common fund maintained for the
staff as a whole, provided that the fund shall be applied only to such purposes as are
approved by the prescribed authority.

   34. Deductions for absence from duty.— (1) Deductions may be made under clause
(b) of sub-section (2) of section 32 only on account of the absence of an employee from
the place or places where, by the terms of his employment, he is required to work, such
absence being for the whole or any part of the period during which he is so required to
work.

   (2) The amount of such deduction shall in no case bear to the wages payable to the
employee in respect of the wage-period for which the deduction is made, a larger
proportion than the period for which he was absent bears to the total period, within such
wage-period during which by the terms of his employment, he was required to work:

  Provided that, subject to any rules made in this behalf by the Government, if ten or
more employees acting in concert absent themselves without due notice that is to say,