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Bare Act

The Sikkim Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1983

General198382 sections

This Act involves rules for how shops and businesses must operate in Sikkim to protect employees. It applies to various commercial venues, including hotels, restaurants, cinemas, and clerical offices, but it excludes standard factories. The legislation sets limits on working hours, requires employers to provide holidays and leave, and mandates registration of establishments. By enforcing these standards, the Act aims to ensure fair treatment and safe working conditions for workers while organizing the commercial sector across the state.

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  1. 1. Short title, Extent, 0P7ration and Application,
  2. 2. Definitions.
  3. 3. References to time of day.
  4. 4. Act not applicable to certain persons and establishments.
  5. 5. power of State Government to exempt.
  6. 6. Registration of Establishments.
  7. 7. Suspension and revocation of licence.
  8. 8. Appeals.
  9. 9. Opening hours of shops.
  10. 10. Closing hours of shops.
  11. 11. Hawking prohibited before opening and after closing hours of shops.
  12. 12. Opening and closing hours of commercial establishments.
  13. 13. Daily and weekly hours of work in commercial establishments.
  14. 14. Interval for rest.
  15. 15. Spread over in shop.
  16. 16. Spread over in commercial establishments.
  17. 17. Holidays, in a week in shops and commercial establishments.
  18. 18. Opening and closing hours of restaurants and eating houses.
  19. 19. Restriction of selling of goods.
  20. 20. Daily hours of work in residential hotels, restaurants and eating houses.
  21. 21. Interval for rest.
  22. 22. Spread over.
  23. 23. The employer to furnish identity card to employee.
  24. 24. Closing hours of theatres or other places of public amusement or entertainment.
  25. 25. Theatres or other places of public amusement or entertainment not to sell goods of the kinds sold in shops after the closing hours of shop.
  26. 26. Section 26
  27. 27. Interval for rest
  28. 28. Spread over
  29. 29. Holidays in a week
  30. 30. Identity card
  31. 31. No child to work in any establishment
  32. 32. Young persons and women to work between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m.
  33. 33. Daily hours of work for young person
  34. 34. Prohibition of employment of young person and women in dangerous work
  35. 35. Prohibition of employment during certain periods
  36. 36. Notice of presence of pregnancy
  37. 37. Maternity leave
  38. 38. Maternity benefit
  39. 39. Interval for nursing the child
  40. 40. Prohibition on dismissal during or on account of absence from work owing to confinement
  41. 41. Facilities to women employees in case of miscarriage etc.
  42. 42. Special casual leave for sterilisation operation
  43. 43. Application and amendment of the Payment of Wages Act, 1936
  44. 44. Cleanliness
  45. 45. Ventilation
  46. 46. Lighting
  47. 47. Precaution against fire
  48. 48. First-aid
  49. 49. Holidays and sick leave
  50. 50. Pay during annual holidays
  51. 51. Power to increase the number of holidays
  52. 52. Mode of recovery of unpaid wages
  53. 53. Responsibility for payment of wages
  54. 54. Fixation of wage period
  55. 55. Wages for overtime work
  56. 56. Gratuity
  57. 57. Time of payment of wages
  58. 58. Payment of advance in certain cases
  59. 59. Wages to be paid in current coin or currency notes
  60. 60. Deduction which may be made from wages
  61. 61. Fines
  62. 62. Deduction for absence from duty
  63. 63. Deduction for damage or loss
  64. 64. Deductions for services rendered
  65. 65. Deductions for recovery of advances
  66. 66. Deductions for payments to co-operative societies and insurance schemes
  67. 67. Notice of termination of service
  68. 68. Appointment of Chief Inspector and Inspectors
  69. 69. Power and duties of the Inspectors
  70. 70. Inspector to be public servant
  71. 71. Protection of action taken in good faith
  72. 72. Employer and Manager to produce registers, records and notices for inspection.
  73. 73. Penalties.
  74. 74. False entries by Employer and Manager.
  75. 75. Penalty for obstructing Inspector.
  76. 76. Determination of employer for purposes of this Act.
  77. 77. Cognizance of offences.
  78. 78. Limitation of prosecution.
  79. 78A. Composition of certain offences.
  80. 79. Maintenance of registers or records and display of the notices.
  81. 80. Power to make rules.
  82. 81. Repeal and Savings.

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