1. Whether a person appointed as an authority under Section 15(1) of the Payment of Wages Act, 1936, must imperatively have experience as a Judge of the Civil Court or a stipendiary Magistrate is the sole question that has been agitated in these two connected Writ Petitions Nos. 1855 of 1969 and 1224 of 1970.

2. Learned counsel for the parties agreed that the determination of the above-said legal question would govern both these writ petitions. Mr. J. S. Chawla on behalf of the same writ petitioner in both the petitions has hence confined himself to the facts of Civil Writ No. 1224 of 1970. In order to appreciate the legal controversy, it deserves notice that the petitioner is the Management Director of the University Victory Bus Service Private Ltd., and respondent No. 4, Chaudhry Ram was an employee of the company above-said. A dispute regarding the quantum of wages due to respondent No. 4 arose between the parties and the latter approached the authorities under the Payment of Wages Act (hereinafter referred to as the Act) at Ambala, which proceeding was decided in his favour vide annexure A. In compliance with this decision of the authority, the petitioner made the direc