{"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":"47","heading":null,"text":"Notwithstanding anything contained in any enactment in regard to any municipal or local fund, all expenses incurred by a municipality 72[or any other local authority] under and for the purposes of this Act shall be paid out of the municipal or local fund, as the case may be. Appointment of Inspectors. 73[48. (1) For an area 74[within the jurisdiction of a local authority whose duty it is to enforce the provisions of this Act] the local authority and for other areas the State Government shall, subject to the provisions of sub-section (3), appoint as many inspectors as the local authority or the State Government, as the case may be, may deem necessary for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), in the areas within the jurisdiction of a local authority, the State Government may appoint Inspectors for such supervision as the State Government may prescribe. (3) A person possessing the prescribed qualifications shall be qualified for being appointed as an Inspector. (4) A local authority or, as the case may be, the State Government may direct that the powers conferred on it by this section shall in such circumstances, and subject to such conditions (if any) as may be specified in the direction, be exercised- (a) in the case of a local authority, by its standing committee or by any committee appointed by it in this behalf or, if such local authority is a municipal corporation, by its Municipal Commissioner or Deputy Municipal Commissioner, and (b) in the case of the State Government, by any officer subordinate to it. Powers and duties of Inspectors.","html":"<p>Notwithstanding anything contained in any enactment in regard to any municipal or local fund, all expenses incurred by a municipality 72[or any other local authority] under and for the purposes of this Act shall be paid out of the municipal or local fund, as the case may be. Appointment of Inspectors. 73[48. (1) For an area 74[within the jurisdiction of a local authority whose duty it is to enforce the provisions of this Act] the local authority and for other areas the State Government shall, subject to the provisions of sub-section (3), appoint as many inspectors as the local authority or the State Government, as the case may be, may deem necessary for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), in the areas within the jurisdiction of a local authority, the State Government may appoint Inspectors for such supervision as the State Government may prescribe. (3) A person possessing the prescribed qualifications shall be qualified for being appointed as an Inspector. (4) A local authority or, as the case may be, the State Government may direct that the powers conferred on it by this section shall in such circumstances, and subject to such conditions (if any) as may be specified in the direction, be exercised- (a) in the case of a local authority, by its standing committee or by any committee appointed by it in this behalf or, if such local authority is a municipal corporation, by its Municipal Commissioner or Deputy Municipal Commissioner, and (b) in the case of the State Government, by any officer subordinate to it. Powers and duties of Inspectors.</p>","words":274,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/bombay-shops-establishments-act-1948/section/47/","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."}