{"act":{"id":"goa-daman-diu-shops-establishments-act-1973","short_title":"The Goa, Daman and Diu Shops and Establishments Act, 1973","long_title":null,"act_number":"13","act_year":1974,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":null,"department":null,"jurisdiction":"Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu","unit":"section","section_count":66,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"ocr","scan_url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/scan/f874c770-fe1c-4f29-a968-29cbb889c009.pdf","url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/goa-daman-diu-shops-establishments-act-1973/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"5","heading":"Daily and weekly hours of work in shops and prohibition of sales in its vicinity","text":"(1) Subject to other provisions of this Act, no employee in any shop shall be required or allowed to work therein for more than eight hours in any day and forty-eight hours in any week. (2) Any employee may be required or allowed to work in a shop for any period in excess of the limit fixed under sub-section (1), on payment of over-time wages, subject however that the maximum period of such excess in a week shall be six hours. (3) For the purpose of stock-taking and preparation of accounts, an employer may, with the previous intimation to the Inspector, require or allow any employee to work in a shop for not more than any fifteen days in a year, in excess of the period fixed in sub-section (1), on payment of over-time wages, so however that the excess period shall not in aggregate, exceed twenty-four hours. (4) No person shall carry on, in or adjacent to, a street or public place, the sale of any goods before the opening and after the closing hours fixed under section 4 for the shops dealing in any kind of goods in the locality in which such street or public place is situated: Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to the sale of - 9 Substituted in place of letters and figures \"Rs. 10,000/-\" by the Amendment Act 6 of 2002. (i) Newspapers, (ii) Flowers, (iii) Pan, (iv) Vegetables and fruits, and (v) such other goods as the Government may, from time to time, by notification, specify.","html":"

(1) Subject to other provisions of this Act, no employee in any shop shall be required or allowed to work therein for more than eight hours in any day and forty-eight hours in any week. (2) Any employee may be required or allowed to work in a shop for any period in excess of the limit fixed under sub-section (1), on payment of over-time wages, subject however that the maximum period of such excess in a week shall be six hours. (3) For the purpose of stock-taking and preparation of accounts, an employer may, with the previous intimation to the Inspector, require or allow any employee to work in a shop for not more than any fifteen days in a year, in excess of the period fixed in sub-section (1), on payment of over-time wages, so however that the excess period shall not in aggregate, exceed twenty-four hours. (4) No person shall carry on, in or adjacent to, a street or public place, the sale of any goods before the opening and after the closing hours fixed under section 4 for the shops dealing in any kind of goods in the locality in which such street or public place is situated: Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to the sale of - 9 Substituted in place of letters and figures "Rs. 10,000/-" by the Amendment Act 6 of 2002. (i) Newspapers, (ii) Flowers, (iii) Pan, (iv) Vegetables and fruits, and (v) such other goods as the Government may, from time to time, by notification, specify.

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