• The State Government may, by order, specify conditions for ensuring safety or women who are required or allowed to work in any factory or manufacturing process between the hours of 8 P.M. and 6 A.M.
• Entitlement, regarding ‘Annual leave with wages’, for the worker who has worked for a period of 180 days or more in a factory during a calendar year.
• Provision of deemed registration if the registering officer fails to pass an order either granting or refusing or objecting to grant or amend the registration within a period of 30 days after submission of an application complete in all respects.
• Provision of duly licensed if the registering officer fails to pass an order either granting or refusing or objecting to grant or renew or amend the registration within a period of 30 days after submission of an application complete in all respects
• The State Government, by notification, may exclude cost on purchase and transportation of plant and machinery to be used in a factory and such other costs from the cost of construction incurred by an employer.
• An employer aggrieved by an order of assessment made under Section 5 or by an order imposing penalty under Section 9, may appeal to the appellate authority against the said order in such manner as prescribed.
• The registration deemed to be duly granted, if no adverse order is passed within the prescribed time from the date of submission of application.
• An officer can compound any offence punishable with fine under these Acts committed for the first time or after expiry of two years’ period of the previous offence, on realization of composition fee as prescribed.
• Exempt from maintaining multiple registers and submission of multiple returns under Certain Labor Laws.
• The State Government, by order, notify forms for maintaining registers and records and furnishing returns by an employer/establishments in lieu of the forms prescribed under the said 13 Acts.
• A Single Annual Online Integrated Return can be filed by employers for 14 Acts. Allow all the shops/ Establishment/Factories to submit consolidated annual returns in lieu of multiple returns under various labor laws

An Act to amend and consolidate the law relating to the regulation of hours of work, payment of wages, leave, holidays, terms of service and other conditions of work of persons employed in shops, commercial establishments, establishments for public entertainment or amusement and other establishments and to provide for certain matters connected therewith

1. This Act may be called the Delhi Shops and Establishments Act, 1954.
2. It extends to the whole of Union Territory of Delhi.
3. It. shall come into force on such date as Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint in this behalf.
4. It shall apply in the first instance only to the municipal areas, Notified Areas and Cantonment limits of Delhi, New Delhi, Shahdara, Civil lines, Mehrauli, Red Fort and Delhi Cantonment but Government may, 2(by notification in the Official Gazette), direct that it shall come into force in any other local area or areas or shall apply to such shops or establishment or class of shops and establishments in such other areas as may be specified in the notification.

• The Act came into force w.e.f 1.2.55 vide Notification No. F. 23(5)/51 L. dated 17.1.55.
• Subs. by Act 6 of 1955.

2. Definitions. – – In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires: -

1. “Adult” means a person who has completed his eighteenth year of age; 1[(1A) “Apprentice” means a person, who is employed, whether on payment of wages or not, for the purpose of being trained in any trade, craft or employment in any establishment;]
2. “Child” means a person who has not completed his twelfth year of age;
3. “Close day” means the day of the week on which a shop or commercial establishment remains closed
4. “Closing hour” means the hour at which a shop or commercial establishment closes;

• 5. “Commercial establishment” means any premises wherein any trade, business or profession or any work in connection with, or incidental or ancillary thereto, is carried on and includes a society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 (XXI of 1860) and charitable or other trust, whether registered or not, which carries on any business, trade or profession or work in connection with or incidental or ancillary thereto, journalistic and painting establishments, contractors and auditors establishments, quarries and mines not governed by the Mines Act, 1952 (XXXV of 1952), educational or other institution run for private gain and premises in which business of banking, insurance, stocks and shares, brokerage or produce exchange is carried on, but does not include a shop or a factory registered under the Factories Act, 1948 (LXIII of 1948), or theatres, cinemas, restaurants, eating houses, residential hotels, clubs or other places of public amusement or entertainment;
• (6) “Day” means a period of twenty-four hours beginning at mid-night; Provided that in the case of an employee whose hours of work extend beyond midnight, day means the period of twenty-four hours beginning when such employment commences irrespective of midnight:
• (7) “Employee” means a person wholly or principally employed, whether directly or otherwise, and whether for wages, (payable on permanent, periodical, contract, piece-rate or commission basis) or other consideration, about the business of an establishment and includes an apprentice and any person employed in a factory but not governed by the Factories Act, 1948 (LXIII of 1948), and for the purpose of any matter regulated by this Act, also includes a person discharged or dismissed whose claims have not been settled in accordance with this Act;]
• (8) “Employer” means the owner of any establishment about the business of which persons are employed, and where the business of such establishment is not directly managed by the owner, means the manager, agent, or representative of such owner in the said business;
(9) “Establishment” means a shop, a commercial establishment, residential hotel, restaurant, eating house, theatre or other places of public amusement or entertainment to which this Act applies and includes such other establishments as Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be an establishment for the purposes of this Act;
• (10)“Factory” means a factory as declared or registered under the Factories Act, 1948 (LXIII of 1948);
• (11)“Family” means the husband, wife, son, daughter, father, mother, brother, sister or grand-son of an employer, living with and wholly dependent on such employer;
• (12)“Government” means the Chief Commissioner, Delhi;
• (13)“Holiday” means a day on which an establishment shall remain closed, or on which an employee shall be given a holiday under the provisions of the Act;
• (14) “Hours of work” or “working hours” mean the time during which the persons employed are at the disposal of the employer exclusive of any interval allowed for rest and meals and “hours worked” has a corresponding meaning;
• (15) “Inspector” means an Inspector appointed under section 36 of the Act;

• (16)“Leave” means leave as provided for under this Act;
• (17) “Occupier” means a person owning or having charge or control of the establishment and includes the manager, agent of representative of such occupier;
• (18) “Opening hour” means the hour at which 4[a shop or commercial establishment] opens for the service of a customer;
• (19)“Prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
• (20)“Register of Establishments” means a register maintained for the registration of establishment under this Act;
• (21)“Registration Certificate” means a certificate showing the registration of an establishment;
• (22) “Religious festival” means any festival, which the Government may by notification in the Official Gazette declare to be a religious festival for the purposes of this Act;
1. Ins. by Act 33 of 1970.
2. Subs. by Act 33 of 1970.
3. Now, Lt. Governor of Delhi (Author’s Comments).
4. Subs. by Central Act 21 of 1961.
• (23)“Residential hotel” means any premises in which business is carried on for the supply of dwelling accommodation and meals on payment of a sum of money by a traveler or any member of the public or a class of the public and includes a club;
• (24)“Restaurant” or “eating-house” means any premises in which is carried on wholly or principally the business of the supply of meals or refreshment to the public or a class of the public for consumption on the premises;
• (25)“Retail trade or business” includes the business of a barber or hair-dresser, the sale of refreshment of intoxicating liquors, and retail sales by auction;
• (26)“Schedule” means a schedule appended to this Act;
• (27)“Shop” means any premises where goods are sold, either by retail or wholesale or where services are rendered to customers, and includes an office, a store-room, godown, warehouse or workhouse or work place, whether in the same premises or otherwise, used in or in connection with such trade or business but does not include a factory or commercial establishment;
• (28)“Spread over” means the period between the commencement and the termination of the work of an employee on any day;
• (29) “Summer” means the period covering the months of April, May, June, July, August and September;
• (30) “Wages” means wages as defined in section 2 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (XI of 1948);

Nothing in this Act shall affect any rights or privileges which an employee in any establishment is entitled to at the date this Act comes into force, under any other law, contract, custom or usage applicable to such establishment or an award, settlement or agreement binding on the employer and the employee in such establishment, if such rights or privileges are more favorable to him than those to which he would be entitled under this Act.

Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, the provisions of this Act mentioned in the third column of the Schedule shall not apply to the establishment, employees and other persons mentioned against them in the second column of the said Schedule: Provided that the Government may, by notification published in the Official Gazette, add to, omit or alter any of the entries of the said Schedule, and on the publication of such notifications the entries in either column of the said Schedule shall be deemed to be amended accordingly.

1- Within the period specified in sub-section (5), the occupier of every establishment shall send to the Chief Inspector a statement in a prescribed form, together with such fees as may be prescribed, containing--

a) The name of the employer and the manager, if any;

b) The postal address of the establishment;

c) The name, if any, of the establishment,

d) The category of the establishment, i.e., whether it is a shop, commercial establishment, residential hotel, restaurant, eating house, theatre or other place of Public amusement or entertainment;

e)The number of employees working about the business of the establishment; and

f) Such other particulars as may the fees, the Chief Inspector shall, on being satisfied

(2) On receipt of the statement and the fees, the Chief Inspector shall, on being satisfied about the correctness of the statement, register the establishment in the Register of Establishment in such manner as may be prescribed and shall issue, in a prescribed form, a registration certificate to the occupier.

The registration certificate shall be shall be prominently displayed at the establishment and shall be renewed at such intervals as may be prescribed in this respect.

(4) In the event of any doubt or difference of opinion between an occupier and the Chief Inspector as to the category to which an establishment should belong, the chief Inspector shall refer the matter to the Government which shall after such enquiry, as it may think proper, decide the category of each establishment and the decision thereto, shall be final for the purpose of this Act.

(5) Within ninety days from the date mentioned in column 2 below in respect of the establishment mentioned in column 1, the statement together with fees shall be sent to the Chief Inspector under sub-section(1).

In the event of loss or mutilation of a registration certificate issued under Rule 4 or renewed under Rule 5 above, a duplicate Registration Certificate shall be issued in Form 'C' marked 'Duplicate' on an application made by the occupier of the establishment and on payment of a fee of 4[₹ 3]].

The occupier shall notify to the Chief Inspector in Form 'D' any change in respect of any information contained in part I of his statement prescribed under Rule 3 within fifteen days after the change has taken place. The notice in Form 'D' shall be sent to the Chief Inspector with ,such fee as are prescribed in Schedule II.]

It shall be the duty of the occupier to notify to the Chief Inspector, on a prescribed form, any change in respect of any information contained in his statement under sub-section (1) of section 5 within 1 month [thirty days after the change has taken place]. The Chief Inspector shall on the receipt of such notice and the prescribed foe and on being satisfied about its correctness make the change in the register of establishments in accordance with, such notice and shall amend the registration certificate, or issue a fresh registration certificate, if necessary.

The occupier shall within fifteen days of his closing the establishment, notify to the Chief Inspector in writing accordingly. The Chief Inspector shall, on receiving the information and being satisfied about the nature of closure, remove such establishment from the register of establishments and cancel the registration certificate. Provided that the Chief Inspector may not, if satisfied that the establishment is likely to re-start within a period of six months, remove it from the register of establishments and cancel the registration certificate.

The periods of work on any day of an adult person shall be so arranged that inclusive of his interval for rest or meals as required under Section 10, they shall not spread over for more than ten and a half hours in any commercial establishment or for more than twelve hours in any shop.

No child shall be required or allowed to work whether as an employee or otherwise in any establishment notwithstanding that such child is a member of the family of the employer.

(1) No young person shall be required or allowed to work about the business of an establishment for more than six hours a day.

(2) No young person shall be employed continuously for more than three and a half hours without an interval of at least half an hour for rest or meals and the spread over shall not exceed eight hours on any day.

No young person or woman shall be allowed, or required to work, whether as an employee or otherwise in any establishment between 9 P.M. and 7 A.M. during the summer season and between 8 P.M. and 8 A.M. during the winter season.

1. No shop or commercial establishment on any day, be opened earlier than such hour or closed later than such hour, as may be fixed by the Government by general or special order made in that behalf. Provided that any customer who was being served or was waiting to be served in any shop or commercial establishment at the closing hour so fixed may be served during the period of fifteen minutes immediately following such hour.

(a) Every occupier of a shop or commercial establishment shall, along with Form 'A' furnish intimation regarding the choice of close day in Form 'E' to the Chief Inspector.

[provided that in respect of any shop or commercial establishment which comes into existence on or after the first day of December, 1959, its occupier shall furnish such information in form "E" to the Chief Inspector within thirty days of the date on which shop or commercial establishment comes into existence.]

Every employee shall be allowed at least twenty-four consecutive hours of rest (weekly holiday) in every week, which shall, in the case of shops and commercial establishments required by this Act to observe a close day, be on the close day.

No deduction shall be made from the wages of any employee on account of the close day under section 16 or a holiday granted under section 17 of this Act. If an employee is employed on a daily wage, he shall nonetheless be paid his daily wage for the holiday and where an employee is paid on piece rates, he shall receive the average of the wages received during the week.

i) Other purposes for which overtime may be worked-An employer may require an adult employee to work overtime subject to the conditions laid down in section 8, for any of the following additional purposes :-

1. Every employer or his agent or the manager of any establishment shall fix periods in respect of which wages to the employee shall be payable and such person shall be responsible for the payment to persons employed by him of all wages required to be paid under this Acts
2. No wage period, so fixed, shall exceed one month.
3. The wages of every employee in any shop or establishment shall be paid on a working day before the expiry of the seventh day of the last day of the wage period in respect of which the wages are payable.
4. All wages shall be paid in cash.
5. Where the employment of any person is terminated by or on behalf of the employer, the wages earned by him shall be paid before the expiry of the second working day after the day on which his employment is terminated.

1. The wages of an employed person shall be paid to him without deduction of any kind except those specified in subsection (2).Explanation. -Every payment made by the employed person to the employer or his agent or the manager shall for the purpose of this Act be deemed to be a deduction from wages.
2. Deductions from the wages of an employee shall be of one or more of the following kinds, namely: -

• Fines;
• Deductions for absence from duty;

(3) Any employer desiring to impose a fine on an employed person or to make a deduction for damage or loss caused by him shall explain to him personally and also in writing the act or omission or the damage or loss, in respect of which the fine or deduction is proposed to be imposed or made, and give him an opportunity to offer any explanation in the presence of another person. The amount of the said fine or deduction shall also be intimated to him.

(4) The amount of fine or deduction mentioned in sub-section (3) shall be such as may be specified by the Government. All such deductions and realizations thereof shall be recorded in a register maintained in a form as may be prescribed.

(5) The amount of fine imposed under sub-section (3) shall be utilized in accordance with the directions of the Government.

(6) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect the provisions of the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 (IV of 1936).

• The Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint any Commissioner for Workmen's Compensation Act or other officer with experience as a Judge of a Civil Court or as a Stipendiary Magistrate to be the authority to hear and decide all claims arising out of delayed payment or non-payment of earned wages of an employee employed in any establishment.
• Application for any such claim may be made to the authority appointed under sub-section (1) by the employee himself [or any official of a registered trade union authorized in writing to act on his behalf] or any legal practitioner or the Chief Inspector for a direction under subsection (3). Provided that every such application should be presented within one year from the date on which the claim for such wages has become payable under this Act: Provided further that an application may be admitted after the said period of one year when the applicant satisfies the authority that he had sufficient cause for not making the application within such period.

(1) Every person employed in an establishment shall be entitled:

a.After every twelve months', continuous employment, to privilege leave for a total period of not less than fifteen days;

b. In every year, to sickness or casual leave for a total period of not less than twelve days; provided that:

• An employee who has completed a period of four months in continuous employment, shall be entitled to not less than five days privilege leave for every such completed period; and
• (ii) An employee who has completed a period of one month in continuous employment shall be entitled to not less than one day's casual leave for every month. Provided further that a watchman or caretaker who has completed a period of twelve months in continuous employment and to whom the provisions of Section 8, 10, 11, 13 and 17 do not apply by virtue of an exemption granted under Section 4, shall be entitled to not less than thirty days' privilege leave.

(i) Privilege leave to which an employee is entitled under clause (a) of sub-section (1) or under any such law, contract, custom or usage, award, settlement or agreement as is referred to in section 3, or any part of such leave, if not availed of by such employee, shall be added to the privilege leave in respect of any succeeding period to which he is so entitled, so however, the total period of such privilege leave which may be accumulated by such employee shall not at any one time exceed three times the period of privilege leave to which he is entitled after every twelve months' employment under that clause or under such law, contract, custom or usage, award, settlement or agreement.

If it appears to an Inspector that the premises of any establishment within his jurisdiction are not sufficiently lighted, cleaned or ventilated, he may serve on the employer an order in writing specifying the measures which in his opinion should be adopted and requiring them to be carried out before a date specified in the order. The Government may prescribe standards in respect of any of these matters.

In every establishment, except such establishments or class of establishments as may be prescribed, such precautions against fire shall be taken as may be prescribed. No persons shall smoke or use a naked lighter or cause or permit any such light to be used in the immediate vicinity of any inflammable material in any establishment.

The provisions of Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 (VIII of 1923) and of rules made thereunder, shall apply mutatis mutandis to every employee of an establishment.

(1) No employer shall dispense with the services of an employee who has been in his continuous employment for not less than three months, without giving such person at least one months' notice in writing or wages in lieu of such notice: Provided that such notice shall not be necessary where services of such employee are dispensed with for misconduct, after giving him an opportunity to explain the charge or charges against him in writing.

(2) No employee who has put in 3 months continuous service shall terminate his employment unless he has given to his employer a notice, of at least one month, in writing. In case he fails to give one month’s notice, he will be released from his employment on payment of an amount equal to one month's pay.

No person shall carry on any retail trade or business of any class near any shop or commercial establishment at any time before the opening and after the closing hours and on the close day, and if any person carries on any such trade or business in contravention of this section, this Act shall apply as if he were the occupier of the shop or commercial establishment which was being kept open in contravention of this Act.

Over and above the registers and forms prescribed elsewhere in these rules, every employer shall maintain a register of employment and wages in Form 'G'. Provided that where the opening and closing hours are ordinarily uniform, the employer may maintain such register in Form 'H' along with a separate register of wages and record of leave in Form 'I'. 1[provided further that entries relating to a particular date, on which an employee is called upon earlier or detained later than the usual working hours, shall be made immediately in the remarks column of Form "H" before such early or late working commences]. The registers, records and notices relating to any calendar year shall be preserved till the end of the following year. Every occupier shall exhibit in his establishment a notice showing the close day, the daily working hours and the usual period of rest interval fixed for employees in form 'K'.

1. The occupier of every shop or commercial establishment shall, in the prescribed form and the prescribed manner, keep exhibited in the shop or establishment a notice setting forth the close day.
2. The occupier of any shop or establishment, about the business of which persons are employed, shall in the prescribed form and in the prescribed manner keep a record of the hours worked and the amount of leave taken by, and of the intervals allowed for rest and meals to, every person employed about the business of the shop or establishment, and particulars of all employment overtime shall be separately entered in the record.
3. The occupier of any shop or establishment, about the business of which persons are employed, shall in the prescribed form and in the prescribed manner keep exhibited in the shop or establishment notices setting forth the number of hours in the week during which persons may in accordance with the provisions of this Act be employed about the business of a shop or establishment and such other particulars as may be prescribed.
4. The occupier of every shop or establishment shall for the purpose of this Act maintain such other records and registers and display such other notices as may be prescribed.

The employer shall furnish every employee with a letter of appointment. Such letters of appointment shall contain the following and such other particulars as may be prescribed, namely:

• The name of employer,
• The name, if any, and the postal address of the establishment,
• The name, fathers name and the age of the employee,
• The hours of work,
• Date of appointment.

It shall be the duty of every occupier of a shop or establishment to produce for inspection of an Inspector, all accounts or records required to be kept for the purpose of this Act, and to give any other information in connection therewith as may be required.

1. Every Inspector shall by the end of January each year furnish a declaration that he has no interest directly or indirectly, himself or by any partnership in any establishment to which the Act applies.
2. No Inspector shall be posted in any area in which any establishment in which he has any interest is situated].

The Government shall appoint a Chief Inspector and such inspectors as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act. The Chief Inspector and the Inspectors so appointed shall carry identity cards.

Subject to any rules made by the Government in this behalf the Chief Inspector or an Inspector may:

• Enter at all reasonable times with such assistance as may be necessary any place which is, or which is being used as an establishment;
• Make such examination of the premises and of any prescribed registers, records and notices and take on the spot or otherwise evidence of any person as he may deem necessary for carrying out the purpose of this Act;
• Make copies of or take extracts from any book, registers or other documents maintained for the purpose of this Act;
• Exercise such other powers as may be necessary for carrying out the purpose of this Act. Provided that no one shall be required under this section to answer any question or to give any evidence tending to incriminate oneself.

(1)The Chief Inspector/Inspector shall make such examination of the premises and of the register, record and notices as may appear to him to be necessary for satisfying himself that the provisions of the Act and of the Rules and of any order or notification issued by the Government under the Act or the Rules made there under are being properly observed, and in particular he shall satisfy himself:

(i) that the establishment is duly registered under the Act;

(ii) that the registers, records and notices required to be maintained or displayed under the Act or these Rules are properly maintained or displayed;

(iii) that the intervals of rest and holidays required to be granted or observed under the Act are granted and observed and that the limits of hours of work and spread-over laid down under the Act are not exceeded;

(iv) that the provisions of the Act relating to the opening and closing hours are duly observed;

(v) that the provisions of the Act and these Rules regarding leave are properly observed;

(vi) that the provisions of the Act and these Rules relating to cleanliness and precautions against fire are properly observed;

(vii) that the provisions of the Act relating to the payment for overtime are duly observed;

(viii) that the wages and other dues are being paid to the employees in time as required under the Act;

(ix) that in dispensing with the services of an employee the provisions of the Act and Rules have been complied with and no dues payable under the Act or Rules have been withheld; and

No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against any public servant or any other person in the service of this Union Territory, acting under the direction of any such public servant for anything in good faith done or intended to be done in pursuance of the provisions of this Act or any rule or order made thereunder.

1. If in any shop or establishment there is any contravention of any provisions of this Act, or any rule or order made there under except sections 33, 41 and 42 the proprietor, the employer or the manager thereof as the case may be shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which shall not be less than twenty-five rupees and which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees.
2. If any person contravenes the provisions of section 33, he shall be liable, on conviction, to a fine of ₹5 for every day on which the contravention occurs or continues.

If any person with intent to deceive makes or causes or allows to be made in any record, register, or notice prescribed under section 33 an entry which is to his knowledge false in any material particular, or willfully omits or causes or allows to be omitted from any such record, register or notice an entry required to be made therein, he shall be liable on conviction to an imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine which shall not be less than fifty rupees and which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees or to both.

Where the occupier of a shop or commercial establishment is charged with an offence against this Act or the rules or orders made thereunder, he shall be entitled, upon complaint duly made by him, to have his agent or servant whom he charges as the actual offender brought before the court at the time appointed for hearing the charge; and if, after the commission of the offence has been proved, the occupier proves to the satisfaction of the court:-

• That he had used due diligence to enforce the execution of this Act and the rules or orders made thereunder, and
• That the said agent or servant committed the offence in question without his knowledge, consent or connivance, or willful neglect or default, that agent or servant shall be convicted of the offence and shall be liable to the like fine as if he were the occupier and the occupier shall be discharged from any liability for the offence.

1. No prosecution under this Act or the rules or orders made thereunder shall be instituted except by or with the previous sanction of the Chief Inspector appointed under the Act.
2. No Court inferior to that of a Magistrate of the First Class shall try any offence under this Act or any rule or order made thereunder.

Nothing in this Act shall apply to--

• The form of submitting a statement, the fees and other particulars under sub-section (1) of section 5, the manner in which the registration certificate under sub-section (2) of section 5, and the form for notifying a change and the fees under section 5;
• Further particulars to be prescribed for the letter of appointment under section 34;
• Fixing time and method for cleaning the establishment under section 25 and prescribing such establishments as are to be exempted from the provisions of and precautions against fire to be taken under section 28;
• Qualification of the Chief Inspector and Inspectors appointed under section 36 and their powers and duties;
• Any other matter, which is or may be prescribed.

(3) Every rule made under this Act shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made before each house of Parliament while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions, and if before the expiry of session in which it is so laid or the session immediately following, both houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be, so however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under the rule].

On and from the date of the commencement of this Act, the Punjab Trade Employees Act, 1940 (Punjab Act No. X of 1940) as extended to Union Territory of Delhi shall be repealed; Provided that-

• 26. All shops and commercial establishments.
• 27. Establishment dealing in raw skin and raw wool.
• 28. Establishment dealing in fodder.
• 29. Establishments of press, 'photographers' accredited by the press information Bureau, Government of India.
• 30. All establishments situated in the President's Estate, New Delhi.
• 31.Travel agencies assisting the travel arrangements of passengers by railway or by other means of transport.

31. (i) Private educational institutions other than those teaching short-hand and typewriting.

(ii) Private institutions teaching short-hand and type-writing.

• 32. Establishments engaged in the manufacture of aerated water.
• 33. Cloak room attendants, girl telephone operators, Ayaas Lady house-keepers and artists in cabaret and entertainment shows except children, in hotels, and other pieces of public amusements.
34. Establishments of chartered accountants, Income-tax practitioners, bakeries, railway catering concerns, and salt refineries.
• 35. Establishments engaged in teaching music and fine arts and conducting classes for other public examinations
36. Shops dealing mainly in Parched grams or grams etc., commonly known as bar-buhjas shops.
• 37. Establishments of M/s. Band Box Pvt. Ltd., Dyers & Dry Cleaners situated in the premises of Ashoka Hotel, New Delhi.
• 38. Railway City Booking Agencies.

• 55. Depots of Food Corporation of India situated at Naraina, Ring Road, New Delhi, New Pusa, New Delhi
• 56. Gonda (Shahdara) and Shakti Nagar.
• 57. Industrial Finance Corporation of India,16, Parliament Street, New Delhi. National Agricultural Co-op. Marketing Federation Ltd., New Delhi.
• 58. National Building Construction Limited, New Delhi.
• 59. Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., (Refineries and Pipelines Division) Indian Oil Bhawan, Janpath, New Delhi.
• 60. Dharamkanta used for weighing heavy vehicles.

(i) Amar Medica, Rajouri garden, New Delhi.

(ii) M/s. Rangila Chemists, Gandhi Nagar, Delhi.

(iii) M/s. Kemp and Company, Connaught Place, New Delhi.

(iv) M/s. Smarak Sons, Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi.

(v) M/s. Sewak Medical Store I. N. A. Super bazaar, New Delhi.

(vi) M/s. Super Stores, Greater Kailash, New Delhi.

(vii) M/s. Satish Chemists, Defence Colony, New Delhi.

(viii) M/s. Gainda Mull Hem Raj 11, Regal Bldg., Parliament Street, New Delhi.

• 61. Sona shops of the handicrafts and handlooms Export Corporation India Ltd. at:

• 77. All Branches of Central Government Employees Consumer Co-operative Society Ltd.
• 78. Cement Corporation Ltd., New Delhi.
• 79. Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (Refineries Division) Link house, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Marg, New Delhi.
• 80. Gardener (Male) of M/s. Glaxo Laboratories (India) Pvt. Ltd., Mathura Road, Okhla, New Delhi-20.
• 81. Shops mainly dealing in Education Books for Schools and Colleges.
• 82. National Fertilizers Ltd., 27, Community Centre, East of Kailash, New Delhi.
• 83. Indian Telephone Industries, Daryaganj, New Delhi.

(i) M/s. Ivory Mart, Northern Gate, Jama Masjid, Delhi

(ii) M/s. Indian Handicraft Emporium, 5, Mehrauli Road, New Delhi.

(iii) M/s. Jagat Narain & Sons, 64, Janpath, New Delhi & at Ashoka Hotel, New Delhi.

(iv) M/s. Cottage Emporium, 8-A, Connaught Place, new Delhi.

• 84. Hindustan paper Corporation Ltd., 95, Nehru Place, New Delhi.
• 85. Head Quarters office of M/s. National Textile Corporation Ltd., 8th Floor, Surya Kiran Building, 19 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi.
• 86. Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd., 18-20 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi.
• 87. Projects and Equipment Corporation of India Ltd., Chanderlok, 36 Janpath, New Delhi.
• 88. M/s. State Chemical and Pharmaceuticals Corp. of India Ltd., Chanderlok 36, Janpath, New Delhi.
• 89. Electronics Trade and Technology Develop. Corp. ltd., 15/48, Malcha Marg, New Delhi.

• 108. BHEL, Vikram Tower, 16 Rajinder Place, New Delhi.
• 109. Maruti Udyog Limited, 6th Floor, Hansalaya, 15-Barakhamba Road, New Delhi.
• 110. Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd., Power Projects and Service Division, Ashoka Estate, 24-Barakhamba Road, New Delhi-1.
• 111. Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd., Thermal Projects Group-projects Division (Spares and Service), 801-Ashoka Estate, New Delhi.
• 112. The Fertilizer Corp. of India Limited, Central Office, 'Madhuban' 55, Nehru Place, New Delhi.
• 113. The Alkali and Chemical Corp. of India Ltd., P.O. Box No. 107, Hamilton House, Connaught Place, New Delhi.
• 114. All Offices of the Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (a Government of India Ltd. Undertaking), located in Delhi.
• 115. Maruti Udyog Limited, 15-Barakhamba Road, New Delhi.
• 116. Export Import Bank of India, Chanakya Bhawan, Africa Avenue, New Delhi.
• 117. British Aerospace, Aircraft Group, Warton Division, 20, Golf Links, New Delhi-110003.
• 118. Shri Guru Ravi Das Janamautsav Committee (Regd.), Delhi, Jatav Shiv Mandir, Basti Harphool Singh, Sadar Bazar, Delhi.
• 119. International Data Processing Co. Ltd., 'Sanchi' 77-Nehru Place, New Delhi-110019.
• 120. The National Industrial Development Corporation Ltd., Chanakya Bhavan, Africa Avenue, New Delhi-110021.
• 121. Rajasthan Handicrafts Emporium, Ashoka Hotel Shopping Arcade, Chanakya puri, New Delhi.
• 122. Tata Consultancy Services, 6, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi.

Following are the highlights on the Self Certificate Scheme:

1. The scheme is optional and any employer or entrepreneur, employing less than 250 workers can opt for this scheme. They can apply online and submit the application at the department’s website–www.hrylabour.gov.in. The mandated time line is 26 days from the date of incorporation
2. Discrepancies in the application or enclosures will be communicated to the applicant within 15 days from the receipt of the application.
3. The applicant would be considered as enrolled under the scheme, if no discrepancies were communicated. This scheme will be valid for five years.
4. The scheme would be valid for Factories Act, 1948, Minimum Wages Act, 1948, Payment of Wages Act, 1936, Contract Labor (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970, Payment of Bonus Act 1965, Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972, Maternity Benefit Act, 1961, Child Labor (Prohibition & Regulation) Act, Shops & Commercial Establishments Act, 1958.
5. The scheme would be effective from the date of online submission of application.
6. Initially, the employer or entrepreneur may apply for the scheme till December 31, 2016. Subsequently, the application would be received only from January 1 to March 31 every year.
7. The factories which do not desire to opt for the scheme would continue to be inspected as per the departmental inspection policy.
8. Only five percent of the factories or establishments that are covered under the scheme are picked up randomly for inspection per year. (Once inspected, the same factory or establishment will not be inspected in the next five years.)However, on specific complaints, accidents, dangerous occurrences and violation of Labor Laws, inspection may be conducted only with prior approval of Labor Commissioner-cum-Chief Inspector of Factories, Haryana.

• The Act applies to the schedule of employment for which minimum wages are fixed/ revised.
• Every employer shall pay the minimum wages for the scheduled employments under this Act. There is provision to fix hours of work, overtime, and wages for overtime.
• Variable DA is fixed based on Consumer Price Index of the previous calendar year.
• Minimum wages are fixed in Punjab on the advice of the State Level Minimum Wages Advisory Board.

The Act provides for paid holidays three national holidays, 26th January for Republic Day, 15th August for Independence Day, and 2nd October for Gandhi Jayanti besides five festival holidays every year. Any employer who contravenes any of the provisions of Section 3, 4, 5 & 6 relating to National Festival Holidays and leave to be kept shall be punishable for the first time offence with fine which may extend to ₹ 1000 but not less than ₹200 and for a second or subsequent offence with fine which may extend to ₹4000 but not less than ₹200.

Whoever willfully obstructs an inspector shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or with fine which may extend to ₹5000 but not less than ₹2000 or with both

Internal processing: The application can be applied at the end user login; same application can be viewable at the Deputy Labor Commissioner login. The Deputy Labor Commissioner will check the application under (new/in process/marked/unpublished/observation/Reply) for application, & process the application via verifying the applicant document list under the scrutiny. The process flow for Department officer is explained below:

- The Deputy Labor Commissioner check’s the online application inside his login and comment online at the Departmental portal. If agreed on this then Deputy Labor Commissioner approves and publishes the application. In case of the objection in the application Deputy Labor Commissioner generates the observation & publishes it.

The applicant can reply or make the compliance to these observations in the login panel of this e- service itself.

The officers/officials (Deputy Labor Commissioner) grant the registration certificate or renew it as the case may be if application is complete in all respect and applicant can download the certificate from his login. However, in the case of objection communicated online the applicants have to be given five clear working days to rectify / clarify. On receipt of clarification / reply online, the branch is given five days to re-examine and to resubmit to the officer. The officer concerned is given five days to consider and recommend the approval and forward to the Licensing Authority i.e. Deputy Labor Commissioner. The Deputy Labor Commissioner is given to five days for allowing or objects to the application. Practically, the system is self stabilized and license is being issued well within the stipulated time in about 20 days)

• (viii) "establishment" means a shop or a commercial establishment;
• (ix) "factory" has the meaning assigned to it in the Factories Act, 1948;
• (x) "family" in relation to an employer, means -
• (i) Spouse;
• (ii) Children and step-children; and
• (iii) Parents, sisters and brothers if residing with and wholly dependent upon him;
• (xi) "festival" means any festival which Government may, by [notification], declare to be a festival for the purpose of this Act;
• (xii) "Government" means the Punjab Government; [Government of Haryana]
• (xiii) "hours of work" or "working hours" means the time during which the persons employed are at the disposal of the employer exclusive of any interval allowed for rest and meals;
• (xiv) "Inspector" means an Inspector appointed under this Act;
• (xv) "leave" means leave provided for in section 14;
• (xvi) "manager", in relation to an establishment where five or more persons are employed or an establishment whose owner does not ordinarily carry on the business personally, means a person declared as such by the employer in the prescribed manner;
• (xvii) "Night" means a period of at least twelve consecutive hours which shall include the interval between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m.
• (xviii) "opened" in relation to a shop or commercial establishment whose entrance is the only entrance to the residence, means opened for the service of any customer or for any business connected with the establishment;]
• (xix) "opening hour" means the hour at which an establishment opens;

• (xxviii) "Wage period" means the period after which the wages of an employed person shall be paid;
• (xxix) "Week" means the period between midnight on Saturday and midnight on the following Saturday;
• (xxx) "Young person" means a person who has attained the age of fourteen but has not attained the age of eighteen years; and
• (xxxi) "Year" means a year commencing on the first day of April.

(2) For the purposes of this Act, any employment in the service of the employer of an establishment upon any work, whether within the establishment or outside it, which relates to or is connected with or is ancillary to the business carried on at the establishment shall be deemed to be employment about the business of the establishment.

3. Act not applicable to certain establishments and persons. - Nothing in this Act shall apply to -

• Offices of or under the Central or State Governments (except commercial undertakings), the Reserve Bank of India, any railway administration or any local authority;
• any railway service, air service, water transport service, tramway, postal, telegraph or telephone service, any system of public conservancy or sanitation or any industry, business or undertaking which supplies power, light or water to the public;
• Railway dining cars;
• Offices of lawyers;
• Any person employed about the business of any establishment mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (d) aforesaid;

• (k) Tanneries;
• (l) Establishments engaged in] retail trade carried on at an exhibition or show, if such retail trade is subsidiary or ancillary only to the main purpose of the exhibition or show;
• (m) Oil mills not registered under the Factories Act, 1948;
• (n) Brick and lime kilns;
• (o) Commercial establishments engaged in the manufacture of bronze and brass utensils so far as it is confined to the process of melting in furnaces;
• (p) Saltpeter refineries;
• (q) Establishments of commercial colleges of short-hand or typewriting and other educational academies;
• (r) Booking offices of the passenger and goods transport companies;
• (s) Establishments dealing exclusive in green and dry fodder and chaff- cutting; and
• (t) Cycle stands and cycle repairs shops.

[(2) Nothing in sub-section (1) of section 10 apply to -

• (i) Establishments of cinema houses;
• (ii) Establishments dealing in hides and skins;
• (iii) Ice factories;
• (iv) establishments engaged exclusively in repairs of cycles or motor vehicles or the service of motor vehicles (not being an establishment dealing in cycles or motor vehicles or exclusively in spare parts thereof);
• (v) establishments dealing exclusively in providing on hire tents, chhauldaries and other articles such as crockery, furniture, loud-speakers, gas lights and fans required for ceremonial purposes; and

• (4) In the case of any contravention of, or failure to comply with, the provisions of this section, the employer shall be liable, on conviction, to a fine which shall not be less than fifty rupees but which may extend to two hundred rupees.
• (5) Where, in proceedings for an offence under this section, the person in respect of whom the offence was committed was a young person, and he appears to the court to have been at the date of the commission of the offence a young person, he shall, for the purposes of this Act, be presumed at that date to have been a young person unless the contrary is proved.

• (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, no person shall be employed about the business of an establishment for more than forty-eight hours in any one week and nine hours in any one day.
• (2) On occasions of seasonal or exceptional pressure of work a person employed in an establishment may be employed about the business of the establishment in excess of the working hours specified in sub-section (1): Provided that -
• (a) The total number of overtime hours worked by an employee does not exceed fifty within a period of [any one quarter]; and
• (b) The person employed overtime shall be paid remuneration at twice the rate of his normal wages calculated by the hour. Explanation. - "Normal Wages" for the purposes of proviso (b) means basic wages plus such allowances including the cash equivalent of the advantages accruing through the concessional sale to workers of food grains and other articles as the worker is for the time being entitled to, but does not include bonus.

Government shall by notification fix the opening and closing hours of all classes of establishments, and different opening and closing hours may be fixed for different classes of establishments and for different areas: Provided that Government may allow an establishment attached to a factory to observe such opening and closing hours as the Government may direct.

• (1) Save as otherwise provided by this Act, every establishment shall remain closed on every Sunday: Provided that, in the case of an establishment attached to a factory the employer may substitute the close day of such establishment so as to correspond to the substituted close day of the factory in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as are laid down in this behalf in the Factories Act, 1948 :[Provided further that Government may by notification fix any other day to be the close day in respect of any class of establishments for the whole of the State or any part thereof.]
• (2) (i) The employer of an establishment shall in the prescribed form intimate to the prescribed authority the [the working hours, the day in a week referred to in clause (b) of section 11], and the period of interval of the employed persons within fifteen days of the date of registration of the establishment.
• (ii) The employer of an establishment may change the working hours and the period of interval once in a quarter of the year by giving intimation in the prescribed form to the prescribed authority at least fifteen days before the change is to take place.
• (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), the employer of an establishment may open his establishment on the close day if -

(1) Within the period specified in sub-section (3), the employer of every establishment shall send to the prescribed authority concerned a statement in the prescribed form [accompanied by such fee as may be prescribed] containing -

• (a) The name of the employer and the manager, if any;
• (b) Postal address of the establishment;
• (c) The name, if any, of the establishment;
• (d) Number of persons employed [in the establishment; and];
• (e) Such other particulars as may be prescribed;

(2) (i) On receipt of the statement, [and prescribed fee], the authority shall, on being satisfied about the correctness of the statement, register the establishment in the register of establishments in such a manner as may be prescribed and shall issue in a prescribed form a registration certificate to the employer. The registration certificate shall, on demand by the Inspector, be shown to him by the employer.

[(ii) The registration certificate shall be renewable by the 31st March every three years. Thirty days' grace time shall, however, be allowed for the renewal of the certificate after payment of prescribed fee.

(3) Within thirty days from the date mentioned in column 2 below in respect of the establishment in column 1, the statement [together with prescribed fee] shall be sent to the prescribed authority under sub-section (1).

(6) In case of any contravention of, or failure to comply with the provisions of this section, the employer shall be liable, on conviction, to a fine, which shall not be less than one thousand rupees but which may extend to three thousand rupees alongwith the prescribed registration or renewal fee, as the case may be: [Provided that the amount of registration or renewal fee so recovered from the employer shall be paid in the Government treasury or in any other mode as may be prescribed so as to enable the prescribed authority to issue or renew the registration certificate, as the case may be.]

(1)(a) Every employee who has been in employment for not less than twenty days in a year shall be entitled to one day's earned leave for every such twenty days : Provided that a young person shall be entitled to one day's earned leave for every fifteen days of employment during the year.

(b) If an employee is discharged or dismissed from or leaves service during the course of the year he shall be entitled to leave with wages or wage in lieu of unavailed leave at the rates laid down in clause (a)

(c) In calculating leave under this section, fraction of half a day or more shall be treated as one day's leave and fraction of less than half a day shall be ignored.

(d) If an employee does not in any one year take the whole of the leave allowed to him under clause (a), any leave not taken by him shall be added to the leave to be allowed to him in the succeeding year:

1. Any person employed in or about an establishment for a period of fifteen days or more shall receive, for every off day in a week referred to in section 11, wages at the rate of not less than the average daily wages earned by him for the days on which he worked during the week immediately preceding every such off day.
2. For the leave allowed to him under section 14, an employee shall be paid at the rate of equal to the daily average of his total full time earnings for the days on which he worked during the month immediately preceding his leave, exclusive of any overtime and bonus but inclusive of dearness allowance and the cash equivalent of the advantage accruing through the concessional sale to the employee of food grains and other articles.
3. An employee who has been allowed leave for not less than five days in the case of a young person and four days in any other case shall, on demand before his leave begins, be paid the wages due for the period of leave allowed.

• (1) Every person responsible for the payment of wages to an employee shall fix a period in respect of which such wages shall be payable.
• (2) No wage period shall exceed one month.
• (3) The wages of every person employed shall be paid before the expiry of the seventh day from the date on which the wages became due.
• (4) Where the employment of any person is terminated by or on behalf of the employer the wages earned by him and the remuneration in lieu of unavailed period of due leave shall be paid before the expiry of the second working day after such termination and where an employee quits his employment on or before the next pay day: Provided that no claim under this section shall be entertained unless it is preferred within six months from the date of its accruing except under special circumstances at the discretion of the Chief Inspector of Shops and Commercial Establishments, Punjab

• (1) Government may, by notification, appoint such persons or such class of persons as it thinks fit to be inspecting officers for the purposes of this Act within such local limits as it may assign to them, respectively; Provided that the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, also appoint such persons, as it may deem fit, not below the rank of Deputy Labor Commissioner, to be the Chief Inspector or Deputy Chief Inspector of shops and commercial establishments who shall, in addition to the powers conferred on a Chief Inspector or Deputy Chief Inspector under this Act or the rules made thereunder, exercise the powers of Inspector throughout the territory of the State of Haryana.]
• (2) Subject to any rules made by Government in this behalf, an inspecting officer may, within the local limits for which he is appointed -

(a) enter at all reasonable times and with such assistants, if any, being persons in the service of Government or of any local authority as he thinks fit, any place which is or which he has reason to believe to be an establishment;

(b) make such examination of the premises and of any prescribed registers, records and notices and take on the spot or otherwise evidence of any person as he may deem necessary for carrying out purposes of this Act;

(c) Exercise such other powers as may be necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act: Provided that no one shall be required under this section to answer any question or give any evidence tending to incriminate him.

• (3) Every inspecting officer appointed under this section shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code.

• (1) The employer of every establishment shall in the prescribed form and manner, keep exhibited in the establishment a notice setting forth the close day, the working hours and the period of interval of employed persons, if any, and such other particulars as may be prescribed.
• (2) The employer of any establishment, about the business of which persons are employed, shall in the prescribed form and manner, keep a record of the working hours, rest intervals and the amount of leave taken by every person employed about the business of an establishment and particulars of all overtime employment shall be separately entered in the record. [-]
• (2A) The employer of every establishment, about the business of which persons are employed, shall mark the attendance of every employee in the register maintained for the purpose within one hour of the start of duty and in the case of overtime every entry regarding the commencement or closure of overtime shall respectively be made before or after such commencement or closure.]

• (3) The employer of every establishment shall keep a photograph of each employee who has completed three months continuous service in the establishment: Provided that where such employee fails to supply such photograph to the employer within fifteen days of the completion of such service, his failure so to do shall be recorded by the employer under the signature of the employee.
• (4) The employer of every establishment shall for the purposes of this Act maintain such other records and registers and display such other notices as may be prescribed.

(5) In the case of any contravention of the foregoing provisions of this section, the employer of an establishment shall be liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding five rupees for every day on which the contravention occurs or continues.

(6) If any person with intent to deceive makes or causes or allows to be made, in any such record, register or notice as aforesaid an entry which is to his knowledge false in any material particular, or willfully omits or causes or allows to be omitted from any such record, register, or notice an entry required to be made therein, he shall be liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine which shall not be less than twenty-five rupees and may extend to two hundred rupees or both.

• (1) The employer of every establishment shall in the prescribed form and manner, keep exhibited in the establishment a notice setting forth the close day, the working hours and the period of interval of employed persons, if any, and such other particulars as may be prescribed.
• (2) Whoever contravenes the provisions of sub-section (1) or willfully obstructs the inspecting authority in the exercise of the power under this Act or conceals or prevents any employee in an establishment from appearing before or being examined by the authority, shall be liable, on conviction, to a fine which shall not be less than twenty-five rupees and may extend to two hundred rupees.

• (1) No employee shall be removed from service unless and until one month's previous notice or pay in lieu thereof has been given to him :Provided that -
• a) No employee shall be entitled to the notice or pay in lieu thereof if he is removed on account of misconduct established on record;
• (b) No employee shall be entitled to one month's notice or notice pay unless and until he has been in the service of the employer continuously for a period of three months.
• (2) In any case instituted for a contravention of the provisions of sub- section (1), if a [Judicial Magistrate] is satisfied that an employee has been removed without reasonable cause, the [Judicial Magistrate] shall, for reasons to be recorded in writing, award compensation to the employee equivalent to two months' salary: Provided that no such claim shall be entertained unless it is preferred by the employee within six months from the date of his removal.

• (3) The amount payable as compensation under this section shall be in addition to, [and recoverable as] fine payable under Section 26.
• (4) No person who has been awarded compensation under this section shall be entitled to bring a civil suit in respect of the same claim.

• (1) No employee, who has been in the service of the employer continuously for a period of three months, shall terminate his employment unless he has given to his employer seven days' previous notice or pay in lieu thereof.
• (2) Where an employee contravenes the provisions of sub-section (1), his employer may forfeit his unpaid wages for a period not exceeding seven days.

Save as otherwise provided by any law for the time being in force, it shall not be lawful in any locality to carry on in any place not being an establishment, retail trade or business of any class at any time if it is unlawful in that locality to keep an establishment open for the purpose of such retail trade or business, and, if any person carries on any trade or business in contravention of this section, this Act shall apply as if he were the employer of the establishment which was being kept open in contravention of this Act.

Subject to the other provisions of this Act, whoever contravenes any of the provisions of this Act, or the rules made thereunder and no penalty has been provided for such contravention in this Act, shall be liable on conviction, to a fine not exceeding one hundred rupees for the first offence, and three hundred rupees for every subsequent offence : Provided that the fine in respect of every subsequent offence within the same year shall not be less than one hundred rupees in any case.

• (4) Receiving evidence on affidavit; and
• (5) Issuing commissions for the examination of witnesses or documents.

No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against any public servant or any other person in the service of the Central or State Government, acting under direction of any such public servant, for anything in good faith done or intended to be done in pursuance of the provisions of this Act or of any rule made thereunder.

Government or any officer empowered by the Government in this behalf may], by notification in the official Gazette, exempt from the operation of all or any of the provisions of this Act for any period it considers desirable any establishment or any class thereof or any employer or employee or class of employers or employees to whom this Act applies on such condition as it may think fit.

No child who has not completed the age of fourteen years shall be employed in any establishment.

• (1) No woman shall be required or allowed to work whether as an employee or otherwise in any establishment during night :[Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall apply to an establishment which is engaged in the treatment or care of the sick, the infirm, the destitute or the mentally unfit.]
• (2) No employer of any establishment shall knowingly employ a woman and no woman shall engage in employment in any establishment during six weeks following the day of her confinement or miscarriage.

Nothing in this Act shall affect any rights or privileges to which an employee in any establishment is entitled on the date this Act comes into force, under any other law, contract, custom or usage applicable to such establishment or any award, settlement or agreement binding on the employer and the employee in such establishment, if such rights or privileges are more favorable to him than those to which he would be entitled under this Act.

No Court shall take cognizance of any offence punishable under this Act or any rule made thereunder or of the abatement of, or attempt to commit, such offence, save on a complaint made by the employee concerned or by such officer as may be authorized in writing in this behalf by the Government.

1. ) Government may make [rules] for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of this Act.
2. In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:-

• (a) The manner and form in which the registers and notices shall be kept;
• (b) The officers who may be empowered to inspect registers and call for information as required by this Act;

The officers/officials (Deputy Labor Commissioner) during scrutiny process record his/her observations, if any, on the application and make known to the applicants via automatic generated e-mail and SMS. The observations are also visible to the applicant when he/she login to view the status of application. Internal processing: The application can be applied at the end user login; same application can be viewable at the Deputy Labor Commissioner login. The Deputy Labor Commissioner will check the application under (new/in process/marked/unpublished/observation/Reply) for application, & process the application via verifying the applicant document list under the scrutiny. The process flow for Department officer is explained below:

- The Deputy Labor Commissioner check’s the online application inside his login and comment online at the Departmental portal. If agreed on this then Deputy Labor Commissioner approves and publishes the application. In case of the objection in the application Deputy Labor Commissioner generates the observation & publishes it.

The applicant can reply or make the compliance to these observations in the login panel of this e- service itself.

The officers/officials (Deputy Labor Commissioner) grant the registration certificate or renew it as the case may be if application is complete in all respect and applicant can download the certificate from his login.

The application for renewal shall be made within 26 days in Form No. 4.-

• (xii) Internal processing: The application can be applied at the end user login; same application can be viewable at the Deputy Labor Commissioner login. The Deputy Labor Commissioner will check the application under (new/in process/marked/unpublished/observation/Reply) for application, & process the application via verifying the applicant document list under the scrutiny. The process flow for Department officer is explained below:
• (xiii) - The Deputy Labor Commissioner check’s the online application inside his login and comment online at the Departmental portal. If agreed on this then Deputy Labor Commissioner approves and publishes the application. In case of the objection in the application Deputy Labor Commissioner generates the observation & publishes it.
• (xiv) The applicant can reply or make the compliance to these observations in the login panel of this e- service itself.
• (xv) The officers/officials (Deputy Labor Commissioner) grant the registration certificate or renew it as the case may be if application is complete in all respect and applicant can download the certificate from his login.

First level-The Assistant of the Labor Wing check’s the online application inside his login and comment online at the Departmental portal. The same application will be marked to the second level officer (Deputy Superintendent).

Second level-The Deputy Superintendent will review the comments of the assistant on the Principal Employer online application. If agreed on the comments of the Assistant, the officer Deputy Superintendent process the application & mark it to the Additional Labor Commissioner. In case of the objection in the application the Additional Labor Commissioner can generate the observation & publish it. The same observation can be viewable at the End user login & it can be replied via End user too.

Third Level- The Additional Labor Commissioner can review the same application and mark the application to the Labor Commissioner for final approval.

The applicant can reply or make the compliance to these observations in the login panel of this e- service itself.

The related assistant grant the registration certificate or amend it as the case may be if application is complete in all respect and applicant can download the certificate from his login.

• Additionally, Legal Occupancy document proof of the establishment/unit or allotment letter of the government agency;
• Further, Documentary proof of establishment of trade,
• Lease Deed of the constitution,
• Moreover, Documentary proof regarding the non-existence of unauthorized construction,
NOC (No Objection Certificate) from the land-owning agency.
• Photograph of Establishment and owners
• Identity Proof all partners, employees, and workers
• DIN / PAN Card
• Treasury Challan
• Aadhar Card
• Driving License
• Voter Id
• Rent Agreement, if Rented
• Electricity Bill