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MAHARASHTRA ACT No. XXIV OF 2022.

(First published, after having received the assent of the Governor in the

“Maharashtra Government Gazette”, on the 17th March 2022.)

An Act to amend the Maharashtra Shops and Establishments

(Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 2017.

WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Maharashtra Shops and

Establishments (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act,

2017, for the purposes hereinafter appearing ; it is hereby enacted in the

Seventy-third Year of the Republic of India as follows :—

1.

This Act may be called the Maharashtra Shops and Establishments

(Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) (Amendment) Act,

2022.

2. In section 1 of the Maharashtra Shops and Establishments

(Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 2017 (hereinafter

referred to as “the principal Act”), for sub-section (3), the following

sub­section shall be substituted, namely :—

Short title.

Mah.

LXI of

2017.

Amendment

of section 1 of

Mah. LXI of

2017.

Mah.

LXI of

2017.

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In pursuance of clause (3) of article 348 of the Constitution of India, the following

translation in English of the Maharashtra Shops and Establishments (Regulation of

Employment and Conditions of Service) (Amendment) Act, 2022 (Mah. Act. No. XXIV of 2022),

is hereby published under the authority of the Governor.

By order and in the name of the Governor of Maharashtra,

SATISH WAGHOLE,

I/c. Secretary (Legislation) to Government,

Law and Judiciary Department.

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“(3)(a) The provisions of this Act, except section 7, shall apply to

the establishments employing ten or more workers.

(b) The provisions of sections 7 and 36A shall apply to the

establishments employing less than ten workers.”.

3.

In section 17 of the principal Act, clause (g) shall be deleted.

4.

After section 36 of the principal Act, the following section shall be

inserted, namely :—

“ 36A. (1) The Name Board of every establishment registered under

section 6, or of every establishment to which section 7 apply, shall be

in Marathi language in Devnagari script :

Provided that, the employer of such establishment may also have

the Name Board in any other language and script in addition to Marathi

in Devnagari script :

Provided further that, lettering in Marathi language shall

essentially be written in the beginning on the Name Board and the font

size of the letters in Marathi Language shall not be smaller than the

font size of the letters in any other language.

(2) No establishment where liquor is served or sold shall have a

Name Board in the name of legends or forts.”.

Amendment

of section 17

of Mah. LXI

of 2017.

Insertion of

new section

36A in Mah.

LXI of 2017.

Name Board

to be in

Marathi.

ON BEHALF OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING, STATIONERY AND PUBLICATION, PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY DIRECTOR,

RUPENDRA DINESH MORE, PRINTED AT GOVERNMENT CENTRAL PRESS, 21-A, NETAJI SUBHASH ROAD, CHARNI ROAD,

MUMBAI 400 004 AND PUBLISHED AT DIRECTORATE OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING, STATIONERY AND PUBLICATIONS,

21-A, NETAJI SUBHASH ROAD, CHARNI ROAD, MUMBAI 400 004. EDITOR : DIRECTOR, RUPENDRA DINESH MORE.