Act not applicable to certain shops establishments and persons

(1) Nothing in this Act shall apply to- (a) offices of the Union or the State Government or of local authorities and of the Reserve Bank of India, the State Bank of India and other nationalised banks and corporations; (b) any transport service, motor service, any industry, business or undertaking which supplies power, light or water to the public and such other public utility corporate bodies and associations or classes thereof as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, exempt from the operation of this Act; (c) establishments run by the Union or the State Government; (d) establishments for the treatment or care of the sick, the infirm or the mentally deranged; and for the benefit of the destitute; (e) pharmacies or shops dealing mainly in medicines, surgical or medical appliances, so far as the sale of these articles is concerned; (f) surgical or clinical homes; (g) shops dealing in articles required for funerals, burials or cremations so far as the sale of these articles is concerned; (h) shops or stalls dealing mainly in vegetables, meat, fish, dairy produce, bread, pastries, sweetmeats, flowers so far as the retail sale of these articles is concerned; (i) stalls or refreshment rooms run by, or with the permission of, the Union or the State Government, and situate within the premises or precincts of institutions belonging to, or run by such Government; (j) shop, stalls or refreshment rooms in any public exhibition or show, so far as such shops, stalls or refreshment rooms deal in retail trade which is solely subsidiary or ancillary to the main purposes of such exhibition or show; (k) shops or stalls in any public fair; (l) shops or establishments dealing in petroleum products; (m) excise shops; (n) persons whose work is inherently intermittent, such as a traveller, a canvasser, a watchman, a messenger or a caretaker; (o) persons exclusively employed in connection with the collection, despatch, delivery or conveyance of goods or the customs formalities thereof; and (p) such other shops, establishments or persons or such classes of any of them as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette exempt from the operation of all or any of the provisions of this Act. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette declare that any shop, establishment or person specified in that sub-section shall not be exempt from the operation of such provisions of this Act as may be specified in the notification and that the provisions of this Act specified in such notification shall apply to such shop, establishment or person.