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(No. 2l of 2018)

THE CHHATTISGARII SHOPS AND ESTABLISHNTENTS (REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT AND CONDITIONS OF SER\/ICE) ACT,2017.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER. - I

PREL]IMINT\RY

l. Short title, extent, application and comrnencement. 2. Definitigns. 3. Act not to apply to certain persons and premises. 4. Cerlain rights and privileges not to be affected.

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CHAPTER-II

REGISTRATION AND ISSUE OF LABOU-R.IDENTIFICATION NUMBER

5. Registration of shops and establishment and issue of labour identification number.

CHAPTER-III

DUTIES OF EMPLOYER

6.

7.

8.

9.

Prohibition on discrimination against women workers. Health and Safety of workers. Working hours. Wages for overtinle.

10. Shifts and period ofrest.

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CHAPTER_ IV

LEAVE AND HOLIDAYS

Annual, casual and sick leave and other holidays..

I l.

CHAPTER_ V WELFAR.E ]?ROVISIONS

12. Drinking water. 13. Latrines and urinals. 11. Crdche facility. 15. First-Aid. 16. Canteen.

CHAPI]ER_VI

FACILITATORS AND THEIR, POWERS AND FUNCTIONS

17. Appointment of Chief Facilitator, Facilitators and their powers.

CHAPTER-'YII RECORDS AND RIETURNS

18. Maintenance of register and records. 19. Annual return.

CHAPTER_VIII OFFENCES AI{D PENALTIES

20. Penalty for contravention of provisions of this Act. 21. Penalty for contravention of provisions of this Act which resulted in accident. 27. Penalty for obstruction, refilsal to provide register, etc. 23. Cognizanceofoffences. 24. Compounding of offences.

CHAP]-ER-IX MISCEL{-ANEOUS

25. Protection of action taking in good fbith. 26. Power to grant exemption. 27. Application of other laws not barred. 28. Power to make rules. 29. Power to remove difficulties. 30. Repeal and saving.

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CHTjTATTISGARII ACT (No.21 of2018)

THE CHHATTISGARH SHOPS NND tr]STABLISHMENTS (REGULATION oF EMPLOYMENT A.ND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE) ACT" ²⁰¹⁷

An Act to consolidate and amend the laws relating to regulation of employment and other service conditions of workers emptoyed in shops and establishments and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Be it enacted by the Chhattisgarh Legislature in the Sixty-eighth Year of the Republic of lndia, as follows:-

CHAPII'ER_ I PRELIIWINARY

(l) This Act may be called the Chhartisgarh shops and Establishments (Regulation of Employment and Conditions ol Service) Act, 201 7.

Short title, extent, application and commencement.

{{^{{FOOTNOTE (2)}}}} It shall extend to the whole State of Chhattisgarh.

(3) It shall apply to the shops and establishments employing ten or more workers.

{{^{{FOOTNOTE (4)}}}} It shall come into force on such date as the State Gorzernment may, by notification in the Official Gazerte, appoint.

2.

Definitions.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-

(a) 'Chief Facilitator" means the Chief Facilitator appointed under sub-

section (1) of Section 17;

(b) "Day" means a period of twenty-foui hours beginning at mid night;

(c) "Employer" rreans an owner or a person who has ultimate control over the affairs of a shop or an establishment, and includes,- (i) in the case of a firm or association of individuals, a partner or

member of the firm or association;

(ii) in the case of a company, a director of the company; (iii) in the case of a shop,or an establishment owned or controlled by the Central Government or the State Government or Local Authority, the person or persons appointed to manage the affairs of such shop or establishment by the Central Government or the State Governlnent or Local Authority, as the case may be;

(d) "Establishment" means any premises, not being the premises of a factory or a shop,-

(i) wherein any trade, business, ma.nufacture, or any work in connection with, or incideirtal or ancillary thereto, or any journalistic or printing work or bursiness of banking, insurance, stocks and shares, brokerage or produce exchange, is carried on; or

(ii) which is used as theater, cinema o.r for any other public amuselrent or entertainment, to whom the provisions of the Factories Act, 1948 (No. 63 of 194.8) does not apply;

(e) "Notification" means a notification published in rhe Offici al Gazetle;

(0 " Prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;

(e) "Shop" means any premises where goods are sold, either by retail or wholesale or where services are renqered to customers and includes an office, a store-room, go-dowrL, warehouse or workhor-Lse orvrzork place for distribution or packing or repacking of finished goods is carried on,but does not include a shop attached to a factory where persons employed in such shop are rlllowecl the benefits provided uncier the Factories Act, 1948 (No. 63 of 1948);

(h) "Wages" rneans all remuneration (whether by way of salar1,, allowances or otherwise) expressed in terms of money or capable of being so expressed which would, if the terms of employment, express or implied, were fulfilled, be payable to a person employed in respec;t of his employment or of work lone in such employment, anC

includes,-

(i) any remuneration payable under any award or settlemerrt

between the parties or under any order of a court or tribunal;

(ii) any remuneration to which the person employed is entitled in

respect of overtime work or holida"ys or any leave period; (iii) any additional remuneratic,n payable under the terms of

employment (whether called a bonus or by any other name);

(iv) any sum which by reason of the termination of employment of the person employed is payable under any law, contract or instrument which provides for the payment of such sum, whether with or without deductions;

(v) any sum to which the perscn scheme framed under any law,

employed is entitled under any for the time being in force; and

(vi) house rent allowance,

but does not include,-

(A) any bonus. which does not form part of the remuneration payable under the terms of employment or which is not payable under any award or settlement between the parties or under any order ofa court;

(B) the value of any accommodation, or of the supply of light, water, medical attendance or other amenity or of any service excluded from the computation of wages by a general or special order of the State Government;

(c) any contribution paid by the ernployer to any pension or provident fund, and the interest which may have accrued thereon;

(D) any travelling allowance or the value of any travelling

concession;

(E) any sum paid to the employed person to defray special

expenses entailed to him by rhe narure of his employment; or

any gratuity payable on the termination of employment in cases other than those specified in sub-clause (iv);

(i) "Week" means a period of seven days, beginning at midnight on Saturday night or such other night as may be approved in writing for a particular area by the Chief Facilitatc,r;

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"Worker" means any person (except an apprentice under the Apprentice Act, l96l (No. 52 of l96l)) employed to do any manual, unskilled, skilled, technical, operational or clerical work for hire or reward, whether the terms of employment be epress or implied.

(r)3.

The provisions of this Act shatl not apply to,- (a) a worker occupying a positron of confidential, managerial or Act not to aPPIY to certain Persons and premises.

supervisory character in a shop or in an establishment;

(b) a worker whose work is inhelently intermittenq

(c) any office of the Government or the Local Authority;

(d)

(e)

any office of the Reserve Barrk of India; an establishment used for the care and treatment of the sick, infirm, destitute or mentally unfit; and

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(0 a member of the family of an employer. A list ofthe workers referred to in clause (a) ofsub-section (l) shall be displayed on the website of the shop or establishment and in absence cf the website, at a conspicuous place in the shop or establishment and a copy thereofshall be sent to the Facilltator.

4.

Nothing contained in this Act shall adversely affect any right or privilege to .which any worker is entitled, under any law, award, agreement, contract. custom or usage for the time rreing in force.

Certain rights and privileges not to be affected.

CHAPTER-II REGISTRATION AND ISSUE OF LA]BOUR IDENTIFICATION NUMBER.

F$strffin of shoPs 5. (l)

and establishment and issue of Labour identification Number'

On the commencement of this Act, every shop and establishment, employing ten or more workers, shall apoly for registration within a period of six months from the date of such oommencement or the date on which such shop or establishment comes into existence and obtain a Labour Identifi cation Number.

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Every shop and establishment, employing terr or more workers, shall make an application for registration to such authority and in such form and manner as may be prescribed.

{{^{{FOOTNOTE (3)}}}} The authority referred to in sub-section (2) shall, on receipt of an application under sub-section (2), register the shop or establishment and issue a Labour Identification Number in such fonn as may be prescribed.

(4)

Notwithstanding anything contained in this section, the shops and establishments registered under the provisions of the Employees State Insurance Act, 1948 (No. 34 of 1948) or the Employees Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 (No. l9 of 1952) or any rules, regulations or schemes made thereunc'er shall be deemed to be registered for the purposes of this Act:

Provided that such shops and establishments shall, within a period of six months from the commencement of this Act, obtain a Labour ldentification Number in such manner as may be prescribed..

CfIAPTER-III DUTIES OF EMPLOYER

6. (l)

No wornan worker shall be discriminated against in matters concerning recruitment, training, transfers, prorho,ions or wages.

Prohibition on discrimination against women workers.

(2) No woman shall be required or allowed to work in a shop or

establishment except between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m.:

Provided that, where the State Government or any person, authorized by it in this behalf, is satisfied that the provision ofshelter, rest room, rright crdche, ladies' toilet, aoequate protection of their dignity, honour and safety, protection froar sexual harassment, and their transpoftation from the shop or establishment to the door step of their residence exists in such shop or establishment, it may, by notification, after obtaining the consent of the v/oman worker, allow her to work between 9 p.rn. and 6 a.m., subjeot to such conditions as may be specified in the notification.

(l)

Health and safety of workers.

measures relating to the health and safety ventilation and prevention of fire) of the

Every employer shall take such (including cleanliness, lighting, workers as may be prescribed.

(2) Every employer shall be responsible fbr providing constant and adequate provisions relating to the health and safety of the workers employed in such shop or establishment and to ensure necessary steps given under sub-section (l) is taken to prevent the happe;ring ofany kind ofaccident.

(l)8.

Working hours.

No adult worker shall be required or allowed to work continuously in a shop or establishment for more than fcrty-eight hours in a week and nine hours in a day, unless he has been given a break of not less than half an hour after every five hours:

Provided that, the working hours or weekly rest may be relaxed in case of work of urgent nature and with the previous permission of the Facil itator.

{2)

The total number of hours of work it a shift including the rest interval shall not exceed ten and half hours in any shop or establishment and in case a worker is entrusted with intermittent nature of work or urgent work, the spread over shall not exceed twelve hours.

(3) Any working hour beyond nine hours a day or forty-eight hours a week shall be treated as overtime and the total number of overtime hours shall not exceed one hundred and twent.,z-five hours in a periocl of three months.

(4) The State Government shall make rules,-

(a) subject to sub-section ( I ), for fixing the number of hours of work which shall constitute a normal working day for the workers ernployed in the shop or establishment, inclusive of one or rlore specified intervals;

(b) for providing a day of rest in every period of seven days which shall be allowed to all the workers employed in the shop or establishment and for the payment of remuneration in respect of such days ofrest.

(s) The provisions of sub-sections (l) and (2) shall, in relation to the following class of workers employed in such shop or establishment, apply only to such extent, and subject to such conditions, as may be prescribed, namely ;-

(a) workers engaged on urgent work or in any emergency which

could not have been foreseen cr prevented;

(b) workers engaged in the nature of preparatory or complementary work which must necessarill, be carried on outside the normal hours of work laid down in the rules:

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(c) workers engaged in any work which for technical reasons has to

be completed before the day iri ov€ri

(d) workers engaged in a work u'hich cannot be carried on except at

times dependent on the irregular action for natural forces; and

(e) highly skilled workers (such as workers working in the establishments of Information Technology, Bio-Technology and Research and Developrnent Divisions).

Wages for overtime. 9. Where any worker is required to work on any day ih excess of nine hours and forty-eight hours in a week, shalr be entitled to wages at the rate of twice his ordinary rate of wages or such higher amount, as may be

prescritred.

Shifts and period of 10. (l) A department or any section of a depaftment of the Shop or rest' Establishment may work in more than one shift and the worker may be

required to work in any shift at the dis;retion of the employer.

(2) A shop or an establishment may work on all days in a u'eek subject to the condition that every worker shall be allowed weekly holiday of at least twenty-four consecutive hours of rest.

(3) If a worker is denied weekly holiday, the compensatory leave in lieu thereof shall be given within two monlhs of such weekly holiday.

(4) The period and hours of work in a week for all classes of workers in such shift shall be informed to all workers in writing and shall be sent to the Facilitator electronically or otherwise.

(5) Where a worker is required to work on a day of rest, he shall be entitled

to wages at the rate of twice his ordinary rate of wages.

C1.{APT'ER-IV LEAVE AND HOLIDAYS.

Annual, casual and

sick leave an. other I l. ( I ) Every worker shall be allowed a weekly holiday with wages:

holidays. Provided that the State Government may, by notification, fix different days as weekly holiday for different class of shops and

establishments of a area.

(2) Every rvorker shall be entitled to eight days' casual leave with wages in every calendar year which shall be credited into the account ofthe worker on a quarterly basis.

(3) , Every worker who has worked for a period of two hundred and fotty days or more in a shop or establishment during a calendar year, shall be allowed during the subsequent calerrdar year, leave with wages for a number of days calculated at the rate of one day for every twenty days of work performed by him during the previous calendar year.

(1) Every worker shall be permitted to accumulate the earned leave upto a

traximum of forty-five daYs.

(5) Where the employer refuses to sanction the leave due when applied fifteen days in advance, then the worker shall have a right to encash the leave in excess offorty-five daYs :

Provided that if a worker is entitled to leave under this section, is discharged by his employer before he has been allowed the leave. or if, having applied for and having been refused the leave, he quits his

employment on account of retirement, resignation, death or pennanent disability, the ernployer shall pay hinr full wages for the period of leave due to hirn.

(6) A worker shall be entitled to eight paid festival holidays in a calendar year, namely, the Independence Day, Republic Day and Gandhi Jayanti and five such other festival holidays as may be agreed between the employer and the workers, before the commencement of the year.

(7) For the purposes ofsub-section (3),-

(a) any day of lay-off, by agreement or contract or as permissible under the standing order cerlified under the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act. 1946 (No. 20 of 1946);

(b) in the case of a female rvorker, the maternity leave under the

provisions of the Maternity Benefit Act, l96l (No. 53 of 1961);

(c) the leave earned in the year prior to that in which the leave is

availed; or

(d) the absence of the worker due to temporary disablement caused

by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment.-

shall be deemed to be days on which the worker has worked in a shop or establishment for the purpose of computation of the period of two hundred and forty days or more, but shalI not earn leave for these days.

(8) The leave adrnissible under sub-section (3) shall be exclupive of all , holidays, whether occurring during or at either end ofthe period ofleave.

CHAPlIER.V WELFARE PROVISIONS

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Drinking water.

Evely employer shall make sufficient arrangements to provide and rnaintain at suitable points, convenier;tly situated for alt persons employed in the shop or establishment, a sufficient supply of wholeson.re drinking water.

t3.

Latrines and urinals.

Every employer shall provide sufficient latrine and urinal facilities for male and female as may be prescribed, which shall be so conveniently situated as may be accessible for the workers employed in the shop or establishment:

Provided that several employers may provide common facilities, in case it is not possible in a shop or establishment due to constraint in space or otherwise.

14.

Criche facility.

In every shop or establishment wherein thirty or more woman workers are ernployed or fifty or more workers are ordinarily employed, employer shall provide and maintain a suitable room or rooms as crdche for the use of children of such woman workers:

Provided that if a group of shops or establishments, so decide to provide a common crdche within a radius of one kilometer, then, the same shall be permitted by the Chief Facilitator, by an order, subject to such conditions as rnay be specified in the order.

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15.

First-Aid.

Every employer shall provide at the place of work hrst-aid facilities as may be prescribed.

16.

Canteen.

The State Government shall require the employer to provide and maintain in the shop or establishrnent, wherein not less than one hundred worker are employed or ordinarily employed, to maintain a canteen for the use of its workers:

Provided that if a group of shops or eslablishments, so decide to provide a common canteen, then the same shall be permitted by the-Chief i.acilitator by an order, subject to such conditions as may be specified in the order.

CFIAPTER.VI FACILITATOR AND TIIEIR POWERS AND FIUNCTIONS (l)17.

The State Government may, by notification, appoint such persons who possess the prescribed qualification to be Facilitator for the purposes of inlr a"t and may assign to them such local limits as it may think: fit:

Appointment of Chief Facilitator, Facilitators and their powers.

Provided that the State Govemment may, by notification, appoint a Chief Facilitator who shall, in addition to the powers conferred otr hirn under this Act, exercise the powers of a Facilitator throughout the State.

(2) The State Government may prescribe a scheme for inspection of shops and establishments, which shall provide for generation of a 'web-based

inspection schedule.

(3) Every Facilitator and Chief Facilitator appointed under sub-section (tr) shall be deemed to be public servant rvithin the meaning of Sec,tion 2l of the Indian Penal Code (No. 45 of 1860), and shall officially be subordinate to such Authority as the State Government may specify in this behalf.

(4) Subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, a Facilitator may, within

the local limits for which he is appointed,-

(i) advice the ernployers and workers and provide thern such information as may be considered necessary for cornplying lvith the provisions of this Act effectively,

(ii) inspect the shop or establishment in accordance with the scheme

for inspection referred under sub-section (2), and may.-

(a) examine any person who is found in any premises of the shop or establishrnent and whom, the Facilitator has reasonable cause to believe, is a worker of the shop or establishment;

(b) require any person to give any information, which is in his power to give, with respect to the natnes and addresses of the persons;

(c) search, seize or take copies of such register, record of wages or notices or poilions thereof as the Facilitator may consider relevant in respect of an offence under this Act and which the Facilitator has reasori to believe has been committed by the employer;

(d) bring to the notice of' the State Governrnent defbcts or abuses not covered by the law for the time being in force: and

(e) €xe'rcise such other pov/ers as may be prescribed:

Provided that no person shall be compelled under this section to answer any question or give any evidence that tends to incriminat: himself.

(s)

Any person required to produce any document or to give any information required by a Facilitator under sub-section (4) shall be deemed to be legally bound to do so within the meaning of Sections 175 and section 176 of the lndian Penal Code (.\o.45 :f 1860).

(6) The provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (No. 2 of 1974) shall, so far as may be, apply to the search cr seizure under sub-clause (c) of clause (ii) of sub-section (4), as they apply to the search or seizure rnade under the authority of a warram issued under Section 94 of the said Code.

CIIAPT'ER VII RECORDS AI\D RETURNS

t8. (l) Every employer shall maintain such registers and records as may be prescribed.

Maintenance of register and records.

(2) The records may be maintained electronically or manually:

Provided that at the time of inspection by a Facilitator, a hard copy of such records if demanded, shall be submitted, duly signed by the employer.

19. Every employer of a shop or an establishrlent shall furnish an annual Annual return.

return, in such form and manner (including electronic fonn), to such authority as may be prescribed.

CHAPTER VIII OFFENCES AND PENALITIES

(l)20.

Penalty for contravention of provision of this Act. Whoever contravenes with the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two lakh rupees and in the case of a continuing contravention, with an additional fine which may extend to two thousand rupees for every day during which such contravention continues:

Provided that the total amount of fine shall not exceed two

thousand rupees per worker ernployed.

(2) If any person has been convicted of any offence punishable under sub- section (l) is again guilty of an offence involving a contravention or failure of compfiance of the same provision, he shall be punishable on a subsequent conviction with fine, which shall not be less than one lakh rupees but which may extend to five lakh rupees.

21.

Penalty for contravention of provisions of this Act which resulted in accident.

Save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, where an ernployer on being held guilty of contravention of any of the provisions of this Act or any rules rnade thereunder, vzhich has resulted in an accider.rt causing serious bodily injury or death of a worker. shall be punishable with imprisonrnent which may extend to six months or with fine which shall not be less than two lakh rupees but ivhich may be extended to five lakh rupees or with both.

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Penalty for obstruction, relusal to provide repiister,

etc. Whoever willfully obstructs a Facilitator in exercise of any power conferred on him by or under this Act or refusesor willfully neglects to afford the Facilitator any reasonable facility for making any inspection. examination, inquiry or investigation ;ruthorised by or under this Act in

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relation to a shop or an establishment, shqll be punishable with fine which may extend to two lakh rupees. Whoever willfully refuses to produce, on the demand by a Facilitator, any register or other document kepl in pursuance of this Act or the rules made thereunder or prevents or attempts to prevent or does anything which he has reason to believe to prevent any person from appearing before, or being examined, by a Facilitator action in pursuance of his duties under this Act, shall be punishable with a fine which may extend to two lakh rupees:

Provided that the total amount of, fine shall not exceed twc

thousand rupees per worker enrrployed.

of 23. (l)

Cognizance offences.

No Court shall take cognizance of an5, offence punishable under this Act and the rules made thereunder, unless a complaint in respect thereof is made by the Facilitator within three months of the date on which the alleged commission of the offence came to the knowledge of the

Facilitator:

Provided that where the offence consists of disobeying a written order made by a Facilitator. complai tt theleof may be made within sir months of the date on which the offence is allesed to have been

committed.

{{^{{FOOTNOTE (2)}}}} Court of Judicial Magistrate of the First Class shall try any offence punishable under this Act or the rules nade thereunder.

of 24. (l)

Compounding offences,

{{^{{FOOTNOTE (2)}}}}

Notwithstanding any.thing contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, ¹ 973 (No. 2 of 197 4), any offence punishable under this Act, not being an offence punishable with imprisonmerLt alone, or with imprisonment and also with fine, may, on an application of the accused person, either before or after the institution of any prosecu:ion, be compounded by a Gazetted officer, as the State Government may, by notification, specify, for a sun.r amounting to fifty percent of the naximum fine provided for such offence, in the manner as may be prescribed. Nothing contained in sub-section (l) shall apply to an offence committed by a person for the second time or thereafter within a period of five years from the date,-

(a) of commission of a similar offence which was earlier

compounded;

(b) of commission of similar offence for which such person was

earlier convicted.

(3) Every officer referred to in sub-section (1) shall exercise the powers to cornpound an offence, subject to the Cirection, control and supervision of the State Government.

{{^{{FOOTNOTE (4)}}}} Every application for the compounding of an offence shall be made in such form and manner as may be prescribed.

(s) Where any offence is compounded before the institution of an)' prosecution, no prosecution shall be instituted in relation to such offence, against the offender in r6lation to whoin the offence is so compounded.

{{^{{FOOTNOTE (6)}}}} Where the composition of any offence is made after the institution of any prosecution, such composition shall be brought by the officer referred tc in sub-section (l) in writi,ng, to the notice of the Courl in which the prosecution is pending and on such notice of tLe composition of the offence being given, the person against whom the offence is so

compounded shall be discharged.

(7) Any person who fails to comply with the order made by.the officer referred to in sub-section (1), shall b: liable to pay a sum equivalent tc twenty percent of the maximum fine provided for the offence, in addition to such fine.

(8) No offence punishable under the provisions of this Act shall be cornpounded except under and in accordance with the provisions of this section.

C}IAPT'ER IX MISCELLANEOUS

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Protection ofaction taken in good faith.

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

26.

Power to grant

exemption.

The State Government or any officer empowered in this behalf may,by notification, exempt from the operation of a-ll or any of the provisions of this Act for such period as it considers necessary, any shop c,r establishment or class thereof or any employer or worker or class of employers or workers to whom this Act applies on such rerms and conditions as it may thinks fit.

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The provisions of this Act shall be irr addit.ion to, and not in derogation of, the provisions of any other law for the time being in force.

Application of other Iaws not barred.

28. (l)

Power to make rules.

(2)

The State Government may, by notification, make rules for carrying out the provisions of this Act. ln 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 authority to which and the form and manner in which an application shall be made under sub-section (2), the fonn of Labour Identification Number under sub-section (3). and the manner of obtaining Labour ldentification Number under sub- section (4), ofSection 5;

(b) the measures to be tal

Section 7;

(c) the mafters to be provided by rules under sub-section (4) of

Section 8;

(d) the conditions subject to which the provisions of sub-section (1) and sub-section (2) of Section 8 shall apply to certain class of workers under sub-section (5) ofthat Section;

(e) rate of higher amount of wages provided under Section 9; (0 the provision for sufficient latrine and urinals given under Section l3 and the provision of first-aid facility given under

Section 15:

(g) the qualifications of Facilitators prrtvided under sub-section (J J,

conditions subject to which a Facilitator shall exercise his powers given under sub-section (4), and other powers exercisable by hirn given under sub-clause (e) cf clause (ii). of sub-section (4). of Section I 7:

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(h) the registers and records to be maint.ained by the employers given

under sub-section (1) ofSection l8'

(i) the form and manner (including eler:tronic form) for furnishing cf annual return and the authority to s'tch returns shall be furnished under Section l9;

0) the manner of comporLnding of offences given under sub-section (1), and form and rnanner for lnaking application for such compounding under surb-section (4). of Section 24;

(k) any other matter which is reqttired to be, or may be, prescribed.

{{^{{FOOTNOTE (3)}}}} Every rule rnade under sub-section (1) and (2) shall be laid before the State Legislative Assembly.

(l)29.

Power to remove difficulties.

If any difficulty arises in giving effect to tlte provisiorrs of this Act, the State Government may, by order, published in the Official Gazette. make such provisions which are not inconsi:;tent with the provisions of this Act as may appear to be necessary for remcving the difficulties:

Provided that no order shall be n-rade under this Section after

the expiry of two years from the date of the commencement of this Act. {{^{{FOOTNOTE (2)}}}} Every order made undel this section slall b,,: laid, as soon as may be after it is made. before the State Legislative Assernbly.

(l) The Chhattisgarh Shops and Establishtnents Act, ¹⁹⁵⁸ (¹\o. ²⁵ cf Repeal anrl Saving. ³⁰'

i958) is hereby repealed.

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