evidence: - Payment of wages (Amendment) Bill, 2017 received President assent on 15th February, 2017 and replaced the Payment of Wages Ordinance, 2016 which was promulgated on December 28, 2016. - Section 6 has been amended to permit the employer to pay an employee wages: [...] Section 6 of Payment of wages (Amendment) Act, 2017 reads as under:-