The Gujarat Pradesh Shops and Establishments Act, 2019 and Rules, 2020 are applicable to all the shops and commercial establishments in the whole of the Gujarat State.
The Act is enacted for the purpose of protecting the rights of employees. The Act provides regulations of the payment of wages, terms of services, work hours, rest intervals, overtime work, opening and closing hours, closed days, holidays, leaves, maternity leave and benefits, work conditions, rules for employment of children, records maintenance, etc.
The provisions of this Act, except section 7, shall apply to the shops and establishments employing ten or more workers; and the provisions of section 7 shall apply to the shops and establishments employing less than ten workers.
Key Definitions
Establishment means an establishment which carries on, any business,trade, manufacture or any journalistic or printing work, or business of banking, insurance, stocks and shares, brokerage or exchange or profession or any work in connection with, or incidental or ancillary to, any business,trade or profession or manufacture; and includes, -
- establishment of any medical practitioner (including hospital, dispensary, clinic, polyclinic, matemity home and such others), architect, engineer, accountant, tax consultant or any other technical or professional consultant;
- a society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, and a charitable or other trust, whether registered or not, which carries on, whether for purposes of gain or not, any business, trade or profession or work in connection with or incidental or ancillary thereto;
- shop, residential hotel, restaurant, eating house, theatre or other place of public amusement or entertainment; to whom the provisions of the Factories Act, 1948 do not apply;
- such other establishment as the State Govemment may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be an establishment for the purposes of this Act.
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 work place, whether in the same premises or otherwise, mainly used in connection with such trade or business, but does not include a factory.
Registration
- Within a period of sixty days from the date of commencement of this Act or the date on which any shop or establishment commences its business, the employer of every shop and establishment shall submit an application in a prescribed form for registration to the concerned Inspector, together with such fees and such self-declaration and self-certified documents as may be prescribed:
Provided that, nothing contained hereinabove shall apply to the shops and establishments already having valid registration under the Gujarat Shops and Establishments Act, l94g until the expiry of their registration.
- On receipt of the application along with the documents and the fees, the Inspector shall, register the shop or establishment in the register of establishments in such manner as may be prescribed and shall issue, in a prescribed form, a registration certificate to the employer within the prescribed time limit. The registration certificate shall be produced whenever it is demanded by the Inspector.
- A registration certificate issued under sub-section (2) shall remain in force from the date of issue till the change in ownership or nature of business takes place. In case of change in ownership or nature of business, the employer of every establishment shall have to obtain the fresh registration certificate.
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