The Maharashtra Shops and Establishments (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 2017 — Physical PDF page 13 of 18

2017 : Mah. LXI]             The Maharashtra Shops and Establishments                                    13
                         (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service)
                                              Act, 2017
      Provided that, several employers may provide common facilities of latrines and urinals, in case it
is not possible, in an establishment due to constraint in space or otherwise.

      23. Creche facility.— In every establishment wherein fifty or more workers are employed, there
shall be provided and maintained a suitable room or rooms as crèche for the use of children of such
workers :
     Provided that, if a group of establishments, so decide to provide a common crèche within a radius
of one kilometre, then, the same shall be permitted by the Chief Facilitator, subject to such conditions
as may be specified in the order.

     24. Canteen.— The State Government shall require the employer to provide and maintain in the
establishment, wherein not less than one hundred workers are employed or ordinarily employed to
maintain a canteen for the use of its workers :
     Provided that, if a group of establishments, so decide to provide a common canteen, then the
same shall be permitted by the Chief Facilitator by an order, subject to such conditions as may be
specified in the order.

     25. Maintenance of registers and records.— (1) Every employer shall maintain such registers
and records, as may be prescribed.                                    e
                                                                od
     (2) The records may be maintained electronically or manually :

                                                         aC
      Provided that, at the time of inspection by a Facilitator, a hard copy of such records if demanded,
shall be submitted duly signed by the employer or his representative.
                                                     di
     (3) Every employer and in his absence the manager shall on demand produce for inspection of
Chief Facilitator and Facilitators all registers, records and notices required to be kept under and for the
purposes of this Act.
                                                In
      (4) All such registers and records shall be kept in the premises of the establishments to which
they relate.
     26. Annual Return.— The employer of an establishment shall furnish an annual return, in such
a form and in such manner (including electronic form), to such authority as may be prescribed.

                                              CHAPTER VI
                                    ENFORCEMENT AND INSPECTION
      27. Provisions for handing over enforcement of Act to local authorities.— Notwithstanding
anything contained in this Act, the State Government may, from time to time, by notification in the
Official Gazette, without the necessity of giving any further notice or reasons, declare that any local
authority or authorities or class of local authorities specified in such notification shall perform the duty
of enforcing the provisions of this Act from a date specified in that notification. From such date, it shall
be the duty of that local authority to enforce the provisions of the Act, in respect of the areas subject to
the jurisdiction of such local authorities, subject to such supervision of the State Government, as may
be prescribed.

      28. Appointment of Chief Facilitator and Facilitators and their powers.— (1) The State
Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint a Chief Facilitator who shall, in
addition to the powers conferred on a Chief Facilitator under this Act, exercise the power of a
Facilitator throughout the State.
      (2) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint such persons who
possess such qualification as may be prescribed, to be the Facilitator or Facilitators, for the purposes of
this Act, and may assign to them such local limits as it may think fit.
    (3) The State Government may prescribe a scheme for randomize inspection of establishments
which shall provide for generation of a web-based inspection schedule.