(1) No shop or commercial establishment shall on any day : -
(a) be opened earlier than such hour as may be fixed by the Government by a general or special order in this behalf;
(b) be kept open later than such hour as may be fixed by the Government by general or special order in this behalf:
Provide that any custom; who was being served or was waiting to be served at the closing hour so fixed in any shop may be served in such shop during half hour immediately following such hour.
(2) The Government may fix different opening or closing hours for different classes of shops and commercial establishments or for different area or for different periods of the year.
10. Haw king prohibited before opening and after closing hours of shops - (1) No person shall carry on in or adjacent to a street or a public place the sale of any goods before the opening and after the closing hours fixed under section 9 for the shops dealing in the same class of goods in the locality in which such street or public place is situate: Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to the sale of news papers. (2) Any person contravening the provisions of sub-section (1) shall be liable to have his goods seized by an Inspector.
(3) The goods seized under sub-section (2) shall be returned to the persons from whom they were seized on his depositing rupees ‘[fifty] as security for his appearance in the Court.
(4) If the person fails to make the de posit, the goods seized shall be produced without delay before a Court, who may give such directions as to their temporary custody, as it thinks fit.
(5) Where no prosecution is instituted for contravention of the 11 provisions of sub-sect ion (1) within such period as the Court may fix in this behalf the Court shall direct their return to the person from who m the y were seized . (6) Subject to the provisions of the preceding sub-section, the provisions of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (No. V 189 8)2 shall so far as they may be applicable, apply to the disposal of the goods seized under this Section. 11. Hours of work in shops and commercial establishments — (1)
(a) No employee in any shop or commercial establishment shall be required or allowed to work for more than 48 hours in a week.
(b) Subject to clause (a) no employee shall be required to work —
(i) in any shop, for more than nine hours on any day;
(ii) in any commercial establishment, for more than ten hours on any day.
(2) Any employee may be required or allowed to work in a shop or commercial establishment for any period in excess of the limit fixed under subsection (1) if such period does not exceed six hours in any week.
(3) On not more than six days in a year, which the Government may fix by rules made in this behalf, for purposes of making of accounts, stock - taking, settlements or other prescribed occasions, any employee may be required or allowed to work in a shop or commercial establishment in excess of the period fixed under sub - section (1) if such excess period does not exceed twenty four hours.