The Goa Shops and Establishments Act, 1973 — Physical PDF page 7 of 23

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  Provided that where an employee works on any day for the purpose of stock-taking
and preparation of accounts, the spread over shall not exceed fourteen hours in any such
day, on payment of over-time wages.

    8. Closing of shops and grant of holidays.— (1) Every shop shall remain closed on
one day of the week. The employer shall fix such day at the beginning of the year, notify
it to the Inspector and specify it on a notice prominently displayed in a conspicuous place
in the shop:
   Provided that the employer shall not without reasonable cause alter such day more
often than once in three months, shall notify the alteration to the Inspector, and shall also
make the necessary change in the notice displayed in the shop.
   (2) The Government may, by notification, require in respect of any specified class of
shops that they shall, in addition to the weekly holiday prescribed under sub-section (1)
be closed at such hour in the afternoon of one week day in every week as may be fixed by
the Government.
   (3) The Government may, for the purpose of sub-section (2), fix different hours for
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different classes of shops or for different areas or for different times of the year.
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  (4) The weekly day on which a shop is closed in pursuance of the requirement under
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sub-section (2) shall be notified to the Inspector and specified by the employer in a notice
prominently displayed in a conspicuous place in the shop, and shall not be altered by the
employer more often than once in three months.di
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  (5) It shall not be lawful for the employer to call an employee at or for the employee to
go to the shop in which he is employed or to any other place for any work in connection
with the business of his shop on the weekly closed day or part of the day on which it has
remained closed.
   (6) No deduction shall be made from the wages of any employee in a shop on account
of the weekly holiday or part of a day on which it has remained closed; and if such
employee is employed on the basis that he would not ordinarily receive wages for such
day or part of a day, he shall none the less be paid for such day or part of a day the wages
he would have drawn had the shop not remained closed or the holiday not been allowed
on that day or part of a day.

                                        CHAPTER III

                          Establishments other than shops
   9. Application of this Chapter to establishments other than shops.— The
provisions of this Chapter shall apply only to establishments other than shops.

   10. Opening and closing hours.— (1) No establishment shall on any day be opened
earlier or closed later than such hour as the Government may, after previous publication
in the Official Gazette, by general or special order specify in that behalf:

   Provided that in the case of a restaurant or eating house, any customer who was being
served or was waiting to be served therein 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 purposes of this section fix different hours for
different classes of establishments or for different areas or for different times of the year.