{"act":{"id":"bombay-shops-establishments-act-1948","short_title":"The Bombay Shops and Establishments Act, 1948","long_title":null,"act_number":"79","act_year":1948,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":null,"department":null,"jurisdiction":"Gujarat","unit":"section","section_count":63,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"ocr","scan_url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/scan/f65c3339-02cb-49e5-8e49-19643d22c18e.pdf","url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/bombay-shops-establishments-act-1948/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"11","heading":null,"text":"(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other enactment for the time being in force, no shop- (a) 3º[ * * * ] other than those specified in clasue (b) of this sub-section, shall on any day be closed later than 8.30 p. m. ; (b) 31[dealing mainly in] pan, bidi, cigarettes, matches and other ancillary articles shall on any day be closed later than 11.00 p.m. : Provided that any customer who was being served or was waiting to be served at such closing hour in any shop may be served in such shop during the quarter of an hour immediately following such hour. (2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (1), the 29[State] Government may fix earlier closing hours for different classes of shops or for different areas or for different periods of the year. Hawking prohibited before opening and after closing hours of shops.","html":"<p>(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other enactment for the time being in force, no shop- (a) 3º[ * * * ] other than those specified in clasue (b) of this sub-section, shall on any day be closed later than 8.30 p. m. ; (b) 31[dealing mainly in] pan, bidi, cigarettes, matches and other ancillary articles shall on any day be closed later than 11.00 p.m. : Provided that any customer who was being served or was waiting to be served at such closing hour in any shop may be served in such shop during the quarter of an hour immediately following such hour. (2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (1), the 29[State] Government may fix earlier closing hours for different classes of shops or for different areas or for different periods of the year. Hawking prohibited before opening and after closing hours of shops.</p>","words":146,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/bombay-shops-establishments-act-1948/section/11/","note":null,"source_note":"Read from the Government's own scanned gazette with Azure Document Intelligence, then split into sections by their numbering. India Code publishes no text for this Act. The scan itself is mirrored into our own storage and served at /scan/f65c3339-02cb-49e5-8e49-19643d22c18e.pdf, so the reading here can be checked against the page it came from without depending on India Code's own copy staying where it is (it was at https://indiacode.gov.in/server/api/core/bitstreams/2620026a-5270-49c4-9e15-aa1dfddd6e8c/content).","judgments_note":"Judgment holdings are the ratio decidendi as extracted from the order by eCourts India, reproduced unaltered. Reported judgments only.","licence":"Published with commentary and other original matter under s.52(1)(q)(ii), Copyright Act 1957."}