{"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":"14","heading":null,"text":"(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, no employee shall be required or allowed to work in any shop or commercial establishment for more than nine hours in any day and forty-eight hours in any week. Daily and weekly hours of work in shops and commercial establishments. (3) On not more than six days in a year which the 34[State] Government may fix by rules made in this behalf, for purposes of making of accounts, stock taking, settlements or other prescribed occasions, any employee may be required or allowed to work in a shop or commercial establishment in excess of the period fixed under sub-section (1), if such excess period does not exceed twenty-four hours. 35[15. 36[(1)] The period of work of an employee in a shop or commercial establishment each day shall be so fixed that no period of continuous work shall exceed five hours and that on employee shall be required or allowed to work for more than five hours before he has had 3 [an interval for rest of at least- Interval for rest. (7) half an hour, if he is en val for reste to (i) half an hour, if he is employed in a commercial establishment engaged in any manufacturing process, and (ii) one hour in any other case, subject, however, to the provisions of sub-section (2)]. 38[(2) In the case of employees other than those employed in a commercial establishment engaged in any manufacturing process, the State Government, on an application made in that behalf by the employees concerned, may permit the reduction of the interval for rest to half an hour.]","html":"<p>(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, no employee shall be required or allowed to work in any shop or commercial establishment for more than nine hours in any day and forty-eight hours in any week. Daily and weekly hours of work in shops and commercial establishments. (3) On not more than six days in a year which the 34[State] Government may fix by rules made in this behalf, for purposes of making of accounts, stock taking, settlements or other prescribed occasions, any employee may be required or allowed to work in a shop or commercial establishment in excess of the period fixed under sub-section (1), if such excess period does not exceed twenty-four hours. 35[15. 36[(1)] The period of work of an employee in a shop or commercial establishment each day shall be so fixed that no period of continuous work shall exceed five hours and that on employee shall be required or allowed to work for more than five hours before he has had 3 [an interval for rest of at least- Interval for rest. (7) half an hour, if he is en val for reste to (i) half an hour, if he is employed in a commercial establishment engaged in any manufacturing process, and (ii) one hour in any other case, subject, however, to the provisions of sub-section (2)]. 38[(2) In the case of employees other than those employed in a commercial establishment engaged in any manufacturing process, the State Government, on an application made in that behalf by the employees concerned, may permit the reduction of the interval for rest to half an hour.]</p>","words":269,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/bombay-shops-establishments-act-1948/section/14/","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."}