The Goa Shops and Establishments Act, 1973 — Physical PDF page 6 of 23

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                                        CHAPTER II

                                          Shops
   4. Opening and closing hours of shops.— (1) No shop shall on any day be opened
earlier or closed later than such hours as may, after previous notification be fixed by the
Government by a general or special order in that behalf:
  Provided that any customer who was being served or was waiting to be served in any
shop at the hour fixed for its closing may be served during the quarter of an hour
immediately following such hour.
   (2) The Government may, for the purpose of this section, fix different hours for
different classes of shops or for different areas or for different times of the year.
   5. Daily and weekly hours of work in shops and prohibition of sales in its
vicinity. — (1) Subject to other provisions of this Act, no employee in any shop shall be
required or allowed to work therein for more than eight hours in any day and forty-eight
hours in any week.
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  (2) Any employee may be required or allowed to work in a shop for any period in
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excess of the limit fixed under sub-section (1), on payment of over-time wages, subject
however that the maximum period of such excess in a week shall be six hours.
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   (3) For the purpose of stock-taking and preparation of accounts, an employer may,
with the previous intimation to the Inspector, require or allow any employee to work in a
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shop for not more than any fifteen days in a year, in excess of the period fixed in sub-
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section (1), on payment of over-time wages, so however that the excess period shall not
in aggregate, exceed twenty-four hours.
   (4) No person shall carry on, in or adjacent to, a street or public place, the sale of any
goods before the opening and after the closing hours fixed under section 4 for the shops
dealing in any kind of goods in the locality in which such street or public place is
situated:
  Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to the sale of —

      (i) Newspapers,
     (ii) Flowers,
     (iii) Pan,
     (iv) Vegetables and fruits, and
    (v) such other goods as the Government may, from time to time, by notification,
  specify.

   6. Interval for rest.— No employee in any shop shall be required or allowed to work
therein for more than five hours in any day unless he has had an interval for rest of at
least one hour:

   Provided that an employee who was serving a customer at the commencement of the
interval may be required to serve him during the quarter of an hour immediately
following such commencement.

   7. Spread over of period of work.— The periods of work of an employee in a shop
shall be so arranged that, along with his intervals for rest, they shall not spread over more
than twelve hours in any day: