(1) Nothing in this Act shall apply to-
(a) employees in any establishment in a position of management and having control over the affairs of the establishment, whose average monthly wages exceed sixteen hundred rupees;
(b) establishments under the Central and State Governments, local authorities, the Reserve Bank of India, a railway administration operating any railway as defined in clause (20) of article 366 of the Constitution and Contonment authorities;
(c) establishment in mines and oil fields;
(d) establishments in bazars in places where fairs or festivals are held temporarily for a period not exceeding one month at a time.
(2) Nothing in section 7 or section 15, as the case may be, shall apply to-
(a) hospitals or other institutions for treatment or care of the sick, the infirm, the destitute or the mentally unfit;
Exemption.
Rights and privileges under other laws etc not affected.
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(b) such chemists‟ and druggists‟ shops as the Government may, by general or special order, specify;
(c) hair-dressing shops, clubs and residential hotels, educational institutions, hostels attached to schools or colleges and establishments maintained in connection with the boarding and lodging of pupils and resident masters;
(d) stalls and refreshment rooms at railway stations, docks, wharves, ports, airports or bus stands;
(e) establishments wholly or principally engaged in the sale of ice or aerated waters;
(f) establishments wholly or principally engaged in the sale of funeral requisites.
(3) Nothing in sections 7, 9 and 12 or in section 15, shall apply to,-
(a) person whose work is of an intermittent nature such as caretaken, sweeper, travelling staff;
(b) persons employed for loading and un-loading of goods at godowns.
(4) The Government may, by notification, exempt either permanently or for any specified period, any establishment or class of establishments, or persons or class of persons, from all or any of the provisions of this Act, subject to such conditions as they may deem fit.
(5) Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing subsections, the Govenrnment may, by notification apply or any of the provisions of this Act to any class of persons or establishments mentioned in those sub-sections other than [Act No.20 of 1988] 49 those mentioned in clause (b) of sub-section (1) and modify or cancel any such notification.
74. The provisions of the Workmen‟s Compensation Act, 1923, and the Rules thereunder shall, so far as may be, apply to every employee to whom this Act applies.
75. No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against any person for anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act.
76. On any special occasion in connection with a fair or festival or a succession of public holidays, the Government may, by notification, suspend for a specified period the operation of all or any of the provisions of this Act, subject to such conditions as may be specified in such notification.
77. Notwithstanding anything in the 10Telangana Cooperative Societies Act, 1964, the provisions of this Act shall apply to the Co-operative Societies.
78. On and from the date on which this Act comes into operation in respect of an establishment, the Weekly Holidays Act, 1942, shall cease to apply to such establishment.
79. With effect on and from the date on which this Act is brought into force in any area, the Andhra Pradesh Shops and Establishments Act, 1966, as in force in that area shall stand repealed:
Provided that–
10. Substituted by G.O.Ms.No.53, Agriculture and Co-operation (Coop.II) Department, dated 20.05.2016.
Power of Government to suspend provisions of the Act during fair and festivals.
Application of this Act to Cooperative Societies.
Central Act 18 of 1942 not to apply to establishments governed by this Act.
Repeal and Saving.
Act 15 of 1966.
Application of the Workmen‟s Compensation Act, 1923.
Central Act 8 of 1923.
Protection of persons acting in good faith.
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(a) every appointment, order, rule, notification or notice made, issued or given under the provisions of the Act so repealed shall, in so far as it is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be deemed to have been made, issued or given under the provisions of this Act, unless and until superseded by any appointment, order, rule, notification or notice made, issued or given under this Act;
(b) any proceedings relating to the trial of any offence punishable under the provisions of the Act so repealed shall be continued and completed as if the said Act had not been repealed but had continued in operation and any penalty imposed on such proceedings shall be recovered under the Act so repealed.
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