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Section 16. Power to make declaration.
The Equal Remuneration Act,1976
Act no. 25 of 19761976Repealed 21 November 2025All India (Central Act)
This Act was repealed on 21 November 2025 by the Code on Wages, 2019 (29 of 2019), s.69(1); it may still apply to matters that began before then.
16. Power to make declaration.—Where the appropriate Government is, on a consideration of all the circumstances of the case, satisfied that the differences in regard to the remuneration, or a particular species of remuneration, of men and women workers in any establishment or employment is based on a factor other than sex, it may, by notification, make a declaration to that effect, and any act of the employer attributable to such a difference shall not be deemed to be a contravention of any provision of this Act.