The Goa Shops and Establishments Act, 1973 — Physical PDF page 21 of 23
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Catalogue jurisdiction: Goa; territorial applicability is unverified.
- Title is 1973, printed Act number is 13 of 1974; cover notification LD/Bill/9/74 prints assent 28 September 1973 and publication 24 October 1974. Preserve all labels without reconciling them.
- Goa/Daman/Diu historical territorial wording and trailing numbered amendment notes on page 23 must remain.
- Separate 2025 Shops Act is not this edition; no repeal/currentness inference from the older title.
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(2) The exercise of the powers delegated under sub-section (1) shall be subject to
control and revision by the Government or by such persons as may be empowered by
them in that behalf. The Government shall also have power to control and revise the acts
or proceedings of any persons so empowered.
59. Power to make rules.— (1) The Government may make rules for carrying out the
purposes of this Act.
(2) In making a rule under sub-section (1), the Government may provide that a
contravention thereof shall be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.
(3) The power to make rules conferred by this section shall be subject to the conditions
of the rules being made after previous publication.
(4) Every rule made under this Act shall, immediately after it is made, be laid before
the Legislative Assembly of Goa, Daman and Diu if it is in session and if it is not in
session, in the session immediately following, for a total period of fourteen days which
may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions, and if before the
expiration of the session in which it is so laid or the session immediately following, the
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Assembly agrees in making any modification in the rule or in the annulment of the rule,
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the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or shall stand annulled, as
the case may be, so however that any such modification or annulment shall be without
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prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.
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60. Right and privilege under other law, etc., not affected.— Nothing in this Act
shall affect any rights, privileges which any employee in any establishment is entitled to,
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on the date on which this Act comes into operation in respect of such establishment,
under any other law, contract, custom or usage applicable to such establishment, if such
rights or privileges are more favourable to him than those to which he would be entitled
under this Act.
61. Exemptions.— (1) Nothing in this Act shall apply to—
(a) employees in any establishments whose average monthly wages exceed 16[six
thousand five hundred rupees]:
(b) establishments under the Central and State Governments, local authorities,
cantonment authorities, the Reserve Bank of India, a railway administration operating
any railway as defined in clause (20) of article 366 of the Constitution;
(c) establishments in mines and oil fields;
(d) establishments in bazaar or in places where fairs or festivals are held temporarily
for a period not exceeding one month at a time.
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[(e) establishments belonging to any nationalised, scheduled or co-operative bank;
(f) establishments known as „Gadas‟ as defined under clause (10-A) of section 2.]
(2) Nothing in section 4 or section 10, as the case be, shall apply to—
(a) hospitals and other institutions for treatment or care of the sick, the infirm,
destitute or the mentally unfit;
(b) such chemists‟ or druggists‟ shops as the Government may, by general or special
order, specify;