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28. Manner of carrying forward when there is no allocable surplus for payment of minimum

28. Manner of carrying forward when there is no allocable surplus for payment of minimum bonus:––

Under sub-section (2) of section 36, where for any accounting year, there is no available surplus or the allocable surplus in respect of that year falls short of the amount of minimum bonus payable to the employees in the establishment under section 26 and there is no amount or sufficient amount carried forward and set on under rule 27 which shall be utilised for the purpose of payment of the minimum bonus, then, such minimum amount or the deficiency, as the case may be, shall be carried forward for

being set off in the succeeding accounting year and so on upto and inclusive of the fourth accounting year in the manner as illustrated in Appendix A.

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