(1) No shop shall on any day be opened earlier or closed later than such hour as may, after previous publication, be fixed by the Government by a general or special order in that behalf:
Provided that, any customer who was being served or was waiting to be served in any shop at the hour fixed for its closing may be served during the quarter of an hour immediately following such hour.
(2) The Government may, for the purposes of this section, fix different hours for different classes of shops or for different areas or for different time of the year.
8. 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 7 for the shops dealing in any kind of goods in the locality in which such street or public place is situated:
Opening and Closing hours of shops.
Selling outside prohibited, before opening and after closing hours of shops.
Appeal against revocation or suspension of the Registration certificate.
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Provided that, nothing in this section shall apply to the sale of –
(i) News papers;
(ii) flowers;
(iii) pan;
(iv) vegetables and fruits; and
(v) such other goods as the Government may, by notification, specify from time to time.