Section 8I

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labour and the Director has reason to believe that there exists between such employer or person liable and any other person a contract, not necessarily a contract as defined in section 2, in the course of the performance of which the employee or subcontractor performed the work in respect of which the order was made, the Director may summon such other person and, if after enquiry he is satisfied that such a contract exists, may make an order in the prescribed form prohibiting him from paying to the employer or person liable and requiring him to pay to the Director any money (not exceeding the amount found due to such employee or subcontractor for labour) admitted by him to be owing to the employer or person liable in respect of such contract:

Provided that where such other person admits to the Director in writing that money is owing by him under such contract to the employer or person liable he need not be summoned to attend before the Director and the Director may make such order in his absence:

Provided further that where such other person is liable as a principal under subsection (1) of section 117C to pay any wages due by the employer or person liable and where the money admitted by him to be owing to the employer or person liable is not sufficient to pay the whole of such wages, nothing in this subsection shall relieve him of his liability for the balance of such wages up to the amount for which he is liable under proviso (b) of the said subsection.