{"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":"58","heading":null,"text":"(1) Where the owner of an establishment is a firm or other association of individuals, any one of the individual partners of members thereof may be prosecuted and punished under this Act for any offence for which an employer in an establishment is punishable : Provided that the firm or association may give notice to the Inspector that it has nominated one of its members who is resident in the 84[ State] to be the employer for the purposes of this Act and such individual shall so long as he is so resident be deemed to be the employer for the purposes of this Act. until further notice cancelling the nomination is received by the Inspector or until the ceases to be a partner or member of the firm or association. (2) Where the owner of an establishment is a company, any one of the directors thereof, or in the case of a private company, any one of the she a holders thereof, may be prosecuted and punished under this Act for any offence for which the employer in the establishment is punishable : Provided that the company may give notice to the Inspector that it has nominated a director, or, in the case of a private company a share holder who is resident in the 84[State] to be the employer in establishment for the purposes of this Act; and such director or share holder shall so long as he is so resident be deemed to be the employer in the establishment for the purpose of this Act, until further notice cancelling his nomination is received by the Inspector or until he ceases to be a director or shareholders. Exemption of employer or manager from liability in certain cases,","html":"<p>(1) Where the owner of an establishment is a firm or other association of individuals, any one of the individual partners of members thereof may be prosecuted and punished under this Act for any offence for which an employer in an establishment is punishable : Provided that the firm or association may give notice to the Inspector that it has nominated one of its members who is resident in the 84[ State] to be the employer for the purposes of this Act and such individual shall so long as he is so resident be deemed to be the employer for the purposes of this Act. until further notice cancelling the nomination is received by the Inspector or until the ceases to be a partner or member of the firm or association. (2) Where the owner of an establishment is a company, any one of the directors thereof, or in the case of a private company, any one of the she a holders thereof, may be prosecuted and punished under this Act for any offence for which the employer in the establishment is punishable : Provided that the company may give notice to the Inspector that it has nominated a director, or, in the case of a private company a share holder who is resident in the 84[State] to be the employer in establishment for the purposes of this Act; and such director or share holder shall so long as he is so resident be deemed to be the employer in the establishment for the purpose of this Act, until further notice cancelling his nomination is received by the Inspector or until he ceases to be a director or shareholders. Exemption of employer or manager from liability in certain cases,</p>","words":289,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/bombay-shops-establishments-act-1948/section/58/","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."}