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APPENDIX D. 
F.M.S. LABOUR CODE, 1923. 
CHAPTER XIII. 
Standard Rates of Wages. 
Standard 141. (i) It shall be lawful for the Indian 
rates of Immigration Committee from time to 
wages time with the approval of the Chief 
Secretary to Government by notification 
in the Gazette to prescribe standard rates of wages 
payable to all or any classes of labourers performing 
all or any of the kinds of labour specified in section 122 
in areas to be set forth in' such notification. 
(ii) The Indian Immigration Committee shall 
give reasonable notice,, to be published in the Gazette 
and in at least three issues of not less than one English 
and one Indian vernacular newspaper circulating, if 
any, in the area or areas to be affected of its intention 
to fix such rates at a meeting of which the date and 
place shall at the same time be notified. All persons 
interested including the Government shall have the 
fight to appear and be heard before the Indian Immi- 
gration Committee at such meeting. Any agent of 
the Government of India appointed under section 7 
■of the Indian Emigration Act, 1922, shall be deemed 
to be a person interested. The Indian Immigration 
Committee may at its discretion allow such persons 
interested to appear by solicitors or by the duly 
