VISWANATHA SASTRI, J.

( 1 ) THIS is an appeal against the judgment of Subba Rao J. (as he then was) quashing a notification of the State of Madras, published as Notification no. 117, G. O. M. No. 5257 (Development Department) in Part I of the Fort st. George Gazette dated 8-1-1951. The appellant before us is the State of madras (now the State of Andhra) represented by the Commissioner of labour. The contesting respondents are either the owners or contractors of beedi factories at Kalahasti, Chittoor District. The Minimum Wages Act (Act XI of 1948) hereinafter referred as the act was passed by the Central Legislature in order to fix the minimum rates of wages for certain employments. It is unnecessary to reproduce the several provisions of the Act which have been extracted in the judgment of the learned Judge. Suffice it to say that the Act empowers the Government to issue a notification fixing the minimum rate of wages in respect of any of the employments specified in the schedule to the Act after considering the advice of committees appointed for the purpose. The minimum rate of wages fixed by the Government under the Act consists of two component parts, (a) the basic rate of w

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