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The Punjab Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1958State Act of Punjab · Act 15 of 1958

(1) The employer of every establishment shall, in the prescribed form and manner keep exhibited in the establishment a notice setting forth the close day, the working hours and the period of interval of employed persons, if any, and such other particulars as may be prescribed.

(2) The employer of any establishment, about the business of which persons are employed, shall in the prescribed form and manner keep a record of working hours, rest intervals and the amount of leave taken by every person employed about the business of an establishment and particulars of all overtime employment shall be separately entered in the record.

☼(2A) The employer of every establishment, about the business of which persons are employed, shall mart the attendance of every employees in the register maintained for the purpose within one hour of the start of duty and in the case of overtime every entry regarding the commencement or closure of overtime shall respectively be made before or after such commencement of closure.

(3) The employer of every establishment shall keep a photograph of each employee who has completed three months continuous service in the establishment:

Provided that where such employee fails to supply such photograph to the employer within fifteen days of the completion of such service, his failure so to so shall be recorded by the employer under the signature of the employee.

(4) The employer of every establishment shall for the purposes of this Act maintain such other records and registers and display such other notices as may be prescribed.

☼ Pb. Act I of 1964.

(5) In the case of any contravention of the foregoing provisions of this section, the employer of an establishment shall be liable, on conviction to a fine not exceeding five rupees for everyday on which the contravention occurs or continues.

(6) If any person with intent to deceive makes, or causes or allows to be made, in any such record, register or notice as aforesaid an entry which is to his knowledge false in any material particular or willfully omits or causes or allows to be omitted from any such record, register or notice an entry required to be made therein, he shall be liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine which shall not be less than twenty five rupees and may extend to two hundred rupees or both.

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ActThe Punjab Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1958
Section20
Marginal noteRecord
JurisdictionState of Punjab
StatusIn force as published by the source

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