The Chhattisgarh Shops and Establishments Act, 1958
The Chhattisgarh Shops and Establishments Act, 1958
Labour195885 sections
This legislation regulates working conditions, operational hours, registration requirements, and labor standards for commercial establishments. It applies to employers and employees working in shops, commercial firms, restaurants, residential hotels, theatres, and public entertainment venues across the state, excluding industrial factories and government offices. The law matters because it safeguards workers against exploitation by establishing limits on daily and weekly working hours, mandating rest intervals, overtime compensation, paid annual leave, and weekly holidays. Additionally, it imposes strict safety, sanitation, and health measures, restricts child labor, and provides specific safety conditions for night shifts worked by women employees.
- 1. Short title, extent, operation and application
- 2. Definitions
- 3. Act not applicable to certain persons and establishment
- 4. Power to apply Act to certain establishments
- 5. Registration of shops and establishment and issue of Labour identification Number.
- 6. Registration of establishments
- 7. Health and safety of workers.
- 8. Working hours.
- 9. Opening and closing hours
- 10. Haw king prohibited before opening and after closing hours of shops
- 11. Annual, casual and sick leave and other holidays.
- 12. Spread - over in shops and commercial establishments
- 13. Holidays in a week in shops and commercial establishments
- 14. Opening and closing hours of restaurants and eating houses
- 15. Restrictions on selling of goods
- 16. Hours of work in residential hotels, restaurants and eating-houses
- 17. Appointment of Chief Facilitator, Facilitators and their powers.
- 18. Holidays in a week
- 18A. Employers in residential hotel, etc. to furnish identity card to employees
- 19. Closing hour of theatres or other places of public amusement or entertainment
- 20. Notice of hours of work
- 21. Hours of work in theatres or other places of public amusement or entertainment
- 22. Spread-over
- 23. Holiday in a week
- 23A. The employer in a theatre etc. to furnish identity card to employee
- 24. Leave/Leave facilities
- 25. Young persons and women to work between 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
- 25A. Daily hours of work for young person
- 25B. Prohibition of employment of young persons and women in dangerous work
- 26. Employee’s right for casual and privilege leave
- 27. Pay during leave
- 28. Powers of the Government
- 29. Power of Inspector to act for worker
- 30. Application and amendment of the Payment of Wages Act
- 31. Cleanliness
- 32. Ventilation
- 33. Precaution against fire
- 34. Powers and duties of local authorities
- 35. Power to make bye-laws
- 36. Submission of annual report, etc.
- 37. Delegation
- 38. Power of Government to provide for performance of duties on default by local authority
- 39. Expenses of local authority to be paid out of its fund
- 40. Appointment of Inspectors
- 41. Powers and duties of Inspectors
- 42. Inspectors to be public servants
- 43. Employer to produce registers, records, etc. for inspection
- 44. Contravention of certain provisions and offences
- 45. Contravention of section 10
- 46. Employees contravening sections 13(3), 18, 25 and 57
- 47. False entries by employer and manager
- 48. Enhance penalty in certain cases after previous conviction
- 49. Penalty for obstructing Inspector
- 50. Persons who may be liable to be prosecuted against and punished
- 51. Cognizance of Offences
- 51A. Summary disposal of cases
- 51B. Offences to be tried by Executive Magistrate
- 52. Limitation of prosecutions
- 53. Composition of offence
- 54. Maintenance of Registers and records and display of notices
- 55. Wages for overtime work
- 56. Evidence as to age
- 57. Restriction of double employment on a holiday or during leave
- 58. Notice of dismissal
- 59. Rules
- 60. Protection to persons acting under this Act
- 61. Rights and privileges under other law, etc not to be affected
- 62. Persons employed in factories to be governed by Factories Act, 1948 and not by this Act
- 63. Provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, to apply mutatis mutandis
- 64. Provisions of Provident Fund
- 65. Repeal
- 18. Maintenance of register and records. Maintenance of register and records.
- 19. Annual return. Annual return.
- 20. Penalty for contravention of provision of this Act. Penalty for contravention of provision of this Act.
- 21. Penalty for contravention of provisions of this Act which resulted in accident. Penalty for contravention of provisions of this Act which resulted in accident.
- 22. Penalty for obstruction, refusal to provide register, etc. Penalty for obstruction, refusal to provide register, etc.
- 23. Cognizance of offences. Cognizance of offences.
- 24. Compounding of offences. Compounding of offences.
- 25. Protection of action taken in good faith. Protection of action taken in good faith.
- 26. Power to grant exemption. Power to grant exemption.
- 27. Application of other laws not barred. Application of other laws not barred.
- 28. Power to make rules. Power to make rules.
- 29. Power to remove difficulties. Power to remove difficulties.
- 29(2). Evidence of age
- 30. Repeal and Saving. Repeal and Saving.
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