(1) This Act shall not apply to–
(a) Offices of or under the Central or State Government. The Reserve Bank of India, any Railway Administration or any local authority;
(b) any railway service, airways service, water transport service, tramway or motor service, postal, telegraph or telephone service, any system of public conservancy or sanitation or any Industry, business or undertaking which supplies power, light or water to the public;
(c) Institution for the treatment or care of the sick, in firm, destitute or mentally unfit;
(d) Shops or stalls in any public fair or bazaar held for a charitable purpose; or
(2) The Administrator may, if he thinks fit so to do in the public interest, by notification, exempt, subject to such conditions, if any, as may be specified in the
4. ***deleted by 2nd Amendment of 1989, (w.e.f.02.01.1989)
5. Subs.by1st Amendment of 1982(w.e.f.10.08.1982)
6. ***deleted by 5th Amendment of 2021, (w.e.f.15.05.2021)
7. Subs. by 5th Amendment of 2021, (w.e.f.15.05.2021) 4 notification, from the operation of any of the provisions of this Act other than those of sections 8, 9 and 10 –
(a) any class or classes of shops or establishments either generally or on such occasion or occasions, in such area and for such period or periods as may be specified in the notification;
(b) any class or classes of persons employed in a shop or an establishment, -
(i) in a managerial or persons employed in a shop or an establishment, -
(ii) as a traveler, canvasser, messenger, watch-man or care-taker. Or
(iii) exclusively in connection with customs examination, collection, dispatch, delivery or conveyance of goods from or to booking offices for transport by rail, road or air, docks, wharves or airports.
Holidays in shops and establishments
5. 8“[(1) A department or any section of a department of the shop or establishment may work in more than one shift at the discretion of the employer and if more than one shift is worked, the person employed may be required to work in any shift at the discretion of the employer;
(2) A shop or an establishment may work on all days in a week subject to the condition that every person employed shall be allowed weekly holiday of at least one full day and another half day of rest;
(3) If a person employed is denied weekly holiday, the compensatory leave in lieu thereof shall be given within two months of such weekly holiday;
(4) The period and hours of work in a week for all classes of persons employed in such shift shall be informed to all persons employed in writing and shall be sent to the registering authority electronically or otherwise, within two weeks of such shift;
(5) Where a person employed is required to work on a day rest, he shall be entitled to wages at the rate of twice his ordinary rate of wages;
Provided that, nothing in this sub-section, shall apply to a person employed whose total period of continuous employment is less than six days.]” Hours of work in shops