Preamble

Shops

Government by a general or special order in that behalf:

Provided that any customer who was being served or was waiting to be served in any

shop at the hour fixed for its closing may be served during the quarter of an hour immediately following such hour.

1. (2)The Government may, for the purpose of this section, fix different hours for different classes of shops or for different areas or for different times of the year. 5. Daily and weekly hours of work in shops and prohibition of sales in its

hours in any week.

1. (2)Any employee may be required or allowed to work in a shop for any period in excess of the limit fixed under sub-section (1), on payment of over-time wages, subject however that the maximum period of such excess in a week shall be six hours.
2. (3)For the purpose of stock-taking and preparation of accounts, an employer may, with the previous intimation to the Inspector, require or allow any employee to work in a shop for not more than any fifteen days in a year, in excess of the period fixed in sub- section (1), on payment of over-time wages, so however that the excess period shall not in aggregate, exceed twenty-four hours.
3. (4)No person shall carry on, in or adjacent to, a street or public place, the sale of any

goods before the opening and after the closing hours fixed under section 4 for the shops

dealing in any kind of goods in the locality in which such street or public place is situated: Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to the sale of —

1. (i)Newspapers,
2. (ii)Flowers,
3. (iii)Pan,
4. (iv)Vegetables and fruits, and
5. (v)such other goods as the Government may, from time to time, by notification, specify. 6. Interval for rest.— No employee in any shop shall be required or allowed to work therein for more than five hours in any day unless he has had an interval for rest of at least one hour: Provided that an employee who was serving a customer at the commencement of the interval may be required to serve him during the quarter of an hour immediately following such commencement. 7. Spread over of period of work.— The periods of work of an employee in a shop shall be so arranged that, along with his intervals for rest, they shall not spread over more than twelve hours in any day: Provided that where an employee works on any day for the purpose of stock-taking

and preparation of accounts, the spread over shall not exceed fourteen hours in any such

day, on payment of over-time wages. 8. Closing of shops and grant of holidays.— (1) Every shop shall remain closed on one day of the week. The employer shall fix such day at the beginning of the year, notify it to the Inspector and specify it on a notice prominently displayed in a conspicuous place in the shop: Provided that the employer shall not without reasonable cause alter such day more often than once in three months, shall notify the alteration to the Inspector, and shall also make the necessary change in the notice displayed in the shop.

1. (2)The Government may, by notification, require in respect of any specified class of shops that they shall, in addition to the weekly holiday prescribed under sub-section (1) be closed at such hour in the afternoon of one week day in every week as may be fixed by the Government.
2. (3)The Government may, for the purpose of sub-section (2), fix different hours for different classes of shops or for different areas or for different times of the year.
3. (4)The weekly day on which a shop is closed in pursuance of the requirement under sub-section (2) shall be notified to the Inspector and specified by the employer in a notice prominently displayed in a conspicuous place in the shop, and shall not be altered by the employer more often than once in three months.
4. (5)It shall not be lawful for the employer to call an employee at or for the employee to

go to the shop in which he is employed or to any other place for any work in connection

with the business of his shop on the weekly closed day or part of the day on which it has remained closed.

1. (6)No deduction shall be made from the wages of any employee in a shop on account of the weekly holiday or part of a day on which it has remained closed; and if such employee is employed on the basis that he would not ordinarily receive wages for such day or part of a day, he shall none the less be paid for such day or part of a day the wages

he would have drawn had the shop not remained closed or the holiday not been allowed

on that day or part of a day.