Chapter IV RESIDENTIAL HOTELS, RESTAURANTS AND EATING HOUSES

1. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other enactment for the time being in force, no restaurant, on eating house shall on any day be opened earlier than 5 a.m and closed later than 11 p. m. for service : Provided that an employee in such restaurant or eating house may be required to commence work not earlier than 4.30 a. m. and shall not be required to work later than 11-30 p. m. : Provided also that any customer who was being served or waiting to be served at the closing hour of such restaurant or eating house may be served in such restaurant or eating house during the quarter of an hour immediately following such hour.
2. (2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (1), the 48[State]

Restaurants and eating houses not to sell goods of the kind sold in shops before the opening and after the closing hours of shops Before and after the hours fixed for the opening and closing of shops under sections 10 and 11, no goods of the kind sold in such shops shall be sold in any restaurant or eating house except for consumption on premises.

21. (1) Except on the days that may be notified under sub-section (3) of section 19, no employee shall be required or allowed to work in any residential hotels, restaurant or eating house for more than nine hours in any day. (2) On the days which may be notified under sub-section (3) of section 19, any employee may be required or allowed to work in a residential hotel, restaurant or eating house in excess of the period fixed under sub-section (1), if such excess period does not exceed three hours in any day.

49[22. The period of work of an employee in a residential hotel, restaurant, or eating house each day shall be so fixed that no period of continuous work, shall exceed five hours and that no employee shall be required or allowed to work for more than five hours before he has had an interval for rest of at least one hour] : 50[Provided that, the State Government may, on an application made in that behalf by the employees concerned, permit the reduction of the interval for rest to half an hour.]

23. The spread-over of an employee in a residential hotel, restaurant or eating house shall not exceed fourteen hours :

Holidays in a week 24. (1) Every employee in a residential hotel, restaurant or eating house shall be given at least one day in a week as a holiday : Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall apply to an employee whose total period of employment in any week is less than six days. (2) It shall not be lawful for an employer to call an employee at, or for an employee to go to, his residential hotel, restaurant or eating house or any other place for any work in connection with the business of his residential hotel, restaurant or eating house on a day on which such employee has a holiday. (3) No deduction shall be made from the wages of any employee in a residential hotel, restaurant or eating house on account of any holiday given to him under sub-section (1). If an employee is employed on a daily wage, he shall none the less be paid his daily wage for the holiday.

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[25. Employer to furnish identity card to employee.] Deleted by Guj. 26 of 1977, s. 5.

CHAPTER-V. THEATRES OR OTHER PLACES OR PUBLIC AMUSEMENT OR ENTERTAINMENT.