{"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":"55","heading":null,"text":"If any employer or manager with intent to deceive makes, or causes or allows to be made, in any register, record or notice prescribed to be maintained under the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder, an entry which, to his knowledge, is false any material particular, or wilfully omits, or causes or allows to be omitted, from any such register, record or notice, an entry which is required to be made therein under the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder, or maintains or causes or allows to be maintained, more than one set of any register, record or notice except the office copy of such notice, or sends, or causes or allows to be sent, to an Inspector, any statement, information or notice prescribed to be sent under the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder, which, to his knowledge, is false in any material particular, he shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which shall not be less than fifty rupees and which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees : Provided that if both the employer and the manager are convicted, the aggregate of the fine in respect of the same contravention shall not exceed two Contravention of certain provisions and offences. Contravention of section 12. Employee contravening sections 18 (2), 24, 31 and 65. False entries by employer and manager. 20 of 53 hundred and fifty rupees.","html":"<p>If any employer or manager with intent to deceive makes, or causes or allows to be made, in any register, record or notice prescribed to be maintained under the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder, an entry which, to his knowledge, is false any material particular, or wilfully omits, or causes or allows to be omitted, from any such register, record or notice, an entry which is required to be made therein under the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder, or maintains or causes or allows to be maintained, more than one set of any register, record or notice except the office copy of such notice, or sends, or causes or allows to be sent, to an Inspector, any statement, information or notice prescribed to be sent under the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder, which, to his knowledge, is false in any material particular, he shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which shall not be less than fifty rupees and which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees : Provided that if both the employer and the manager are convicted, the aggregate of the fine in respect of the same contravention shall not exceed two Contravention of certain provisions and offences. Contravention of section <a href=\"/bombay-shops-establishments-act-1948/section/12/\">12</a>. Employee contravening sections <a href=\"/bombay-shops-establishments-act-1948/section/18/\">18</a> (2), 24, 31 and 65. False entries by employer and manager. 20 of 53 hundred and fifty rupees.</p>","words":239,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/bombay-shops-establishments-act-1948/section/55/","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."}