25A. Payment of wage through bank.

(1) Nothing in section 25(1) shall operate so as to render unlawful or invalid any payment of wages by the employer to the employee with the employee's written consent in any of the following ways:

(a) payment into an account at a bank or a finance company licensed under the Banking and Financial Institutions Act 1989 in any part of Malaysia being an account in the name of the employee or an account in the name of the employee jointly with one or more other persons;

(b) payment by cheque made payable to or to the order of the employee.

(2) The consent of the employee under this section may be withdrawn by him at any time by notice in writing given to the employer. Such notice shall take effect at but not before the end of the period of four weeks beginning with the day on which the notice is given.

(3) The consent of the employee to the mode of payment of wages under subsection (1) shall not be unreasonably withheld or, if granted, shall not be unreasonably withdrawn by the employee notwithstanding subsection (2).

(4) Any dispute as to whether an employee has unreasonably withheld or withdrawn his consent to the mode of payment of his wages under subsection (1) shall be referred to the Director-General whose decision on the matter shall be final.