{"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":"19","heading":null,"text":"(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other enactment for the time being in force, no restaurant, on eating house shall on any day be opened earlier than 5 a.m and closed later than 11 p. m. for service : Provided that an employee in such restaurant or eating house may be required to commence work not earlier than 4.30 a. m. and shall not be required to work later than 11-30 p. m. : Provided also that any customer who was being served or waiting to be served at the closing hour of such restaurant or eating house may be served in such restaurant or eating house during the quarter of an hour immediately following such hour. (2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (1), the 48[State] Government may fix later opening or earlier closing hours for different restaurants or eating houses or for different areas or for different periods of the year. (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in this section or any other enactment for the time being in force, on not more than ten days in a year on festive or special occasions, the 48[State] Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, fix such opening and closing hours for different restaurants or eating houses or for different areas, as it thinks proper.","html":"<p>(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other enactment for the time being in force, no restaurant, on eating house shall on any day be opened earlier than 5 a.m and closed later than 11 p. m. for service : Provided that an employee in such restaurant or eating house may be required to commence work not earlier than 4.30 a. m. and shall not be required to work later than 11-30 p. m. : Provided also that any customer who was being served or waiting to be served at the closing hour of such restaurant or eating house may be served in such restaurant or eating house during the quarter of an hour immediately following such hour. (2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (1), the 48[State] Government may fix later opening or earlier closing hours for different restaurants or eating houses or for different areas or for different periods of the year. (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in this section or any other enactment for the time being in force, on not more than ten days in a year on festive or special occasions, the 48[State] Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, fix such opening and closing hours for different restaurants or eating houses or for different areas, as it thinks proper.</p>","words":214,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/bombay-shops-establishments-act-1948/section/19/","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."}