Opening and Closing hours

(1) No establishment shall on any day be opened earlier than and closed later than such hours as may be fixed by a general or special order of the State Government made under sub-section (2). Provided that any customer who was being served or was waiting to be served in any establishment at the hour fixed for its closing may be served during the quarter of an hour immediately following such hour. (2) The State Government may by general or special order, fix the time at which any establishment or class of establishment shall be opened or closed in any local area. Persons in charge of public roads, pleasure grounds, plantations wherein common grazing grounds are available, canals, drainage, works tanks embankments, and the like and officers of police, officers employed by local authorities within their respective jurisdictions and such other officers as the Director may empower in this behalf, may seize, or cause to be seized, any cattle doing damage to such roads, ground, plantations, canals, drainage works, tanks, embankments and the like or the sides or slopes of such roads, canals, drainage works, tanks or embankments or found straying thereon and shall send them or cause them to be sent within twenty-four hours, to the nearest pound.