Hours of work in shops and commercial establishments

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Statutory text

(a) No employee in any shop or commercial establishment shall be required or allowed to work for more than 48 hours in a week.
(b) Subject to clause
(a) no employee shall be required to work—
- (i) in any shop, for more than nine hours on any day;
- (ii) in any commercial establishment, for more than ten hours on any day.

(2) Any employee may be required or allowed to work in a shop or commercial establishment for any period in excess of the limit fixed under sub-section
(1) if such period does not exceed one hundred forty four hours in any quarter.
(3) On not more than six days in a year, which the Government may fix by rules made in this behalf, for purposes of making of accounts, stock-taking, settlements or other prescribed occasions, any employee may be required or allowed to work in a shop or commercial establishment in excess of the period fixed under sub-section (1), if such excess period does not exceed twenty-four hours.

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