Weekly closing

(1) Every shop shall be closed on one day in each week. (2) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, require in respect of every shop, or of any specific class of shops that it shall be closed at such hour as may be specified in the afternoon of one specified day in each week, in addition to the day referred to in sub-section (1). (3) The day on which a shop shall be closed in each week under sub-section (1) shall be specified and displayed by the employer in a conspicuous place in the shop: Provided that no employer shall, more often than once in a period of three months, alter the day so specified. (4) No deduction shall be made from the wages of any employee in a shop on account of any day on which it has remained closed under this section.