BOMBAY SHOPS AND ESTABLISHMENTS ACT, 1948
GUJARAT ACT NO. 35 OF 1980.
(First published, after having received the assent of the President in the “Gujarat Government Gazette”, on the 12th December, 1980),
An Act further to amend the Bombay Shops and Establishments Act, 1948.
It is hereby enacted in the Thirty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows : —
Short title and commencement
1. (1) This Act may be called the Bombay Shops and Establishments (Gujarat Amendment) Act, 1980.
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
Amendment of section 2 of Bom. LXXIX of 1948.
2 In the Bombay Shops and Establishments Act, 1948 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Act”), in section 2, for clause (2), the following shall be substituted, namely:-
“(2) “child” means a person who has not completed his fourteenth year;”.
Insertion of new section 59A in Bom. LXXIX of 1948.
3. In the principal Act, after section 59, the following section shall be inserted, namely: —
Protection in respect of employment of certain children.
“59A. If any specified person has been required or allowed to work whether as an employee or otherwise in an establishment, before the commencement of the Bombay Shops and Establishments (Gujarat Amendment) Act, 1930 (hereinafter referred to as “the Amending Act”) and such act of requiring or allowing such specified person to so work was not a contravention of section 32 before such commencement, then nothing contained in this Act as amended by the amending Act shall be deemed to render the continuance of the Act of requiring or allowing such person to so work after such commencement, a contravention of section 32.
Explanation.—For the purposes of this section “specified person” means a person who at the time when he was required or allowed to work whether as an employee or otherwise in an establishment had completed his twelfth year but had not completed his fourteenth year.”. |
