The Goa, Daman and Diu Shops and Establishments Act, 1973

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    "slug": "goa-daman-and-diu-shops-and-establishments-act-1973",
    "title": "The Goa, Daman and Diu Shops and Establishments Act, 1973",
    "short_title": "The Goa, Daman and Diu Shops and Establishments Act, 1973",
    "act_number": "(Act No. 13 of 1974)",
    "act_year": 1973,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Goa",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Goa, Daman and Diu Shops and Establishments Act, 1973",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent, commencement and application.",
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        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) \"apprentice\" means a person who is employed, whether on payment of wages or not, for the purpose of being trained in any trade, craft or employment in any establishment;\n[(1-A) \"bank\" means establishments belonging to any nationalized, scheduled or co-operative bank;]\n(2) \"child\" means a person who has not completed his [fourteenth] year of age;\n(3) \"closed\" means not open, for the service of any customer, or for any trade or business or for any other purpose connected with the establishment except loading, unloading and annual stock-taking;\n(4) \"commercial establishment\" means any establishment which carries on any business, trade or profession or any work in connection with, or incidental or ancillary to, any business, trade or profession and includes-\n(a) a society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 (Central Act XXI of 1860) or charitable or other trust, whether registered or not, which carries on any business, trade or profession or work in connection with, or incidental or ancillary to, such business trade or profession;\n(b) an establishment which carries on the business of advertising, commission agency, forwarding or commercial agency or which is a clerical department of a factory or of any industrial or commercial undertaking;\n(c) an insurance company, Joint Stock Company, [ ] broker's office or exchange; and\n(d) any other establishment which the Government may notify to be a commercial establishment, but does not include a factory, shop, residential hotel, restaurant, eating house, theatre or other place of public amusement or entertainment.\n(5) \"day\" means a period of twenty-four hours beginning at mid-night, except that in the case of an employee, whose hours of work extend beyond midnight, day means the period of twenty-four hours beginning from the time when such employment commences;\n(6) \"dependent\" means in relation to a deceased employee, his nominee or in the absence of such nominee, his heir or legal representative;\n(7) \"employee\" means a person wholly or principally employed in, and in connection with, any establishment, and includes an apprentice or any clerical or other staff of a factory or industrial establishment which falls outside the scope of the Factories Act, 1948 (Central Act 63 of 1948); but does not include the husband, wife, son, daughter, father, mother, brother, sister or dependent relative of an employer or his partner, who is living with and depending upon such employer or partner and is not in receipt of any wages;\n(8) \"employer\" means a person having charge of or owning or having ultimate control over the affairs of an establishment and includes the manager, agent or other person acting in the general management or control of an establishment;\n(9) \"establishment\" means a shop, commercial establishment, residential hotel, restaurant, eating house, theatre or other place of public amusement or entertainment [and a bank] to which this Act applies and includes such other establishment as the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be an establishment for the purposes of the Act;\n(10) \"factory\" means factory within the meaning of the Factories Act, 1948 (Central Act 63 of 1948);\n[(10A) \"Gada\" means an establishment mounted on wheels, whether moving or stationary and constructed by using either wood or metal sheets or both and managed by the owner himself or a member of his family or a dependent and the value of the goods stored therein, on any particular day, for the purpose of trading does not exceed Rs. 5000/-.\nExplanation.\n(11) \"goods\" includes all materials, commodities and articles;\n(12) \"Government\" means the Administrator of the Union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu appointed under article 239 of the Constitution;\n(13) \"gratuity\" means the gratuity payable under section 39;\n(14) \"Inspector\" means an Inspector appointed under section 49;\n(15) \"notification\" means a notification published in the Goa, Daman and Diu Government Gazette;\n(16) \"opened\" means opened for the service of any customer or for any trade or business connected with the establishment;\n(17) \"periods of work\" means the time during which an employee is at the disposal of the employer;\n(18) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(19) \"residential hotel\" means any premises used for the reception of guests and travellers desirous of dwelling or sleeping therein and includes a club;\n(20) \"restaurant\" or \"eating house\" means any premises in which is carried on wholly or principally the business of supplying meals or refreshments to the public or a class of the public for consumption on the premises and includes a Halwai shop but does not include a restaurant attached to a theatre or restaurant or a canteen attached to a factory if the persons employed therein are allowed the benefits provided for workers under the Factories Act, 1948 (Central Act 63 of 1948);\n(21) \"shop\" means any premises where goods are sold, either by retail or wholesale or both or where services are rendered to customers and includes an office, store-room, godown, ware-house, sale depot and work-place, whether in the same premises or elsewhere, used mainly in connection with such trade or business, but does not include a factory, commercial establishment, residential hotel, restaurant, eating house, theatre or other place of public amusement or entertainment or a shop attached to a factory where the persons employed in the shop are allowed the benefits provided for workers under the Factories Act, 1948 (Central Act 63 of 1948) ;\n(22) \"spread over\" means the period between the commencement and termination of work of an employee on any day;\n(23) \"theatre\" includes any premises intended principally or wholly for the exhibition of pictures or other optical effects by means of cinematograph or other suitable apparatus or for dramatic or circus performances or for any other amusement or entertainment;\n(24) \"wages\" means every remuneration, whether by way of salary, allowances, or otherwise expressed in terms of money or capable of being so expressed which would, if the term of employment, express or implied were fulfilled, be payable to an employee in respect of his employment or of work done in such employment, and includes-\n(a) any remuneration payable under any settlement between the parties or order of a tribunal or court;\n(b) any remuneration to which the employee is entitled in respect of overtime work or holidays or any leave period;\n(c) any additional remuneration payable under the terms of employment, whether called a bonus or by any other name;\n(d) any sum which by reason of the termination of employment of the employee is payable under any law, contract or instrument which provides for the payment of such sums, whether with or without deductions, but does not provide for the time within which the payment is to be made;\n(e) any sum to which the employee is entitled under any scheme framed under any law for the time being in force, but does not include -\n(i) any bonus, whether under a scheme of profit sharing or otherwise, which does not form part of the remuneration payable under the terms of employment, or, which is not payable under any award or settlement between the parties or order of a court;\n(ii) the value of any house accommodation, or of the supply of light, water, medical attendance or other amenity or of any service excluded from the computation of wages by a general or special order of the Government;\n(iii) any contribution paid by the employer to any pension or provident fund, and the interest which may have accrued thereon;\n(iv) any travelling allowance or the value of any travelling concession;\n(v) any sum paid to the employee to defray special expenses incurred by him on account of the nature of his employment; or\n(vi) any gratuity payable on the termination of employment in cases other than those specified in sub-clause (d) ;\n(25) \"week\" means a period of seven days beginning at midnight on Saturday;\n(26) \"young person\" means a person who is not a child but has not completed eighteen years of age.",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Registration of Establishments and renewal of registration certificates.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the name of the employer and the manager, if any;\n(b) the postal address of the establishment;\n(c) the name, if any, of the establishment;\n(d) category of the establishment; and\n(e) such other particulars as may be prescribed.\nEstablishments\nPeriod\n(1)\n(2)\n(i)\nEstablishments existing on the date on which this Act comes\n\t\t\t\t\tinto force\nNinety days from the date on which the Act comes into force.\n(ii)\nNew Establishments\nNinety days from the date on which the establishment\n\t\t\t\t\tcommences its work.\n[3A. Registration and renewal of registration certificate in respect of Bank.\n(a) the name of the bank and its General Manager or Branch Manager or Regional Manager or Manager, as the case may be;\n(b) the postal address of the bank;\n(c) such other particulars as may be prescribed.\nChapter II\nShops",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 2
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Opening and closing hours of shops.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 3
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Daily and weekly hours of work in shops and prohibition of sales in its vicinity.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) Newspapers,\n(ii) Flowers,\n(iii) Pan,\n(iv) Vegetables and fruits, and\n(v) such other goods as the Government may, from time to time, by notification, specify.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 4
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Interval for rest.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Spread over of period of work.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Closing of shops and grant of holidays.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter III\nEstablishments other than shops",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Application of this Chapter to establishments other than shops.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Opening and closing hours.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Daily and weekly hours of work in establishment.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Interval for rest.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Spread over of periods of work.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 12
        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Holidays.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter IV\nEmployment of children, young persons and women",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Children not to work in establishment.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 14
        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Young persons to work only between 6 a. m. and 7 p. m.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 15
        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Daily and weekly hours of work for young persons.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 16
        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Maternity benefit.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Maternity leave.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) six weeks leave immediately preceding the day of delivery; and\n(b) six weeks leave following the day of delivery.\nChapter V\nHealth & Safety",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 18
        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Cleanliness.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 19
        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Ventilation and Lighting.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(b) If it appears to an Inspector that the premises of any establishment within his jurisdiction are not sufficiently lighted, he may serve on the employer an order in writing specifying the measures which in his opinion should be adopted and requiring them to be carried out before a specified date.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Precautions for the safety of employees in establishments.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter VI\nLeave and Holidays with wages",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 21
        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Leave.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to leave with wages for a period not exceeding nine days, on the ground of any sickness incurred or accident sustained by him; and\n(b) to casual leave with wages for a period not exceeding six days on any reasonable ground.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 22
        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Other holidays.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 23
        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Pay during leave and holidays.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 24
        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "26. Power to increase the period of leave allowable under section 23.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter VII\nWages",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 25
        },
        {
            "number": "27",
            "title": "27. Responsibility for payment of wages.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 26
        },
        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Fixation of wage-period.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 27
        },
        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Wages for overtime work.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Explanation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 28
        },
        {
            "number": "30",
            "title": "30. Time for payment of wages.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 29
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Wages to be paid in current coin or currency notes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 30
        },
        {
            "number": "32",
            "title": "32. Deductions which may be made from wages.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Explanation.\n(a) fines and other penalties lawfully imposed;\n(b) deductions for absence from duty;\n(c) deductions for damages to, or loss of, goods expressly entrusted to the employee for custody, or for loss of money for which he is required to account, where such damage or loss in directly attributable to his neglect or default;\n(d) deduction for house accommodation provided by the employer;\n(e) deduction for such amenities and services, supplied by the employer as the Government may, by general or special order, authorise;\n(f) deductions for recovery of advances or for adjustment of over-payments of wages;\n(g) deductions of income-tax or profession tax payable by the employee;\n(h) deductions required to be made by order of a court or other authority competent to make such order;\n(i) deductions for subscriptions to, and for repayment of advances from, any provident fund to which the Employees Provident Funds Act, 1952 (Central Act 19 of 1952) applies or any recognised provident fund as defined in section 2(38) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (Central Act 43 of 1961), or any provident fund approved in this behalf by the Government during the continuance of such approval;\n(j) deductions for payments to co-operative societies approved in this behalf by the Government or any officer authorised by them in this behalf or to a scheme of Insurance maintained by the Indian Post Office or the Life Insurance Corporation of India established under the Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956 (Central Act 31 of 1956);\n(k) deductions made with the written authorisation of the employee.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 31
        },
        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "33. Fines.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Explanation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 32
        },
        {
            "number": "34",
            "title": "34. Deductions for absence from duty.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Explanation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 33
        },
        {
            "number": "35",
            "title": "35. Deductions for damage or loss.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 34
        },
        {
            "number": "36",
            "title": "36. Deductions for services rendered.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 35
        },
        {
            "number": "37",
            "title": "37. Deductions for recovery of advances.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) recovery of an advance of money given before employment began shall be made from the first payment of wages in respect of a complete wage-period, but no recovery shall be made of such advances given for travelling expenses;\n(b) recovery of advances of wages not already earned shall be subject to any rules made by the Government regulating the extent to which such advances may be given and the instalments by which they may be recovered.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 36
        },
        {
            "number": "38",
            "title": "38. Deductions for payment to co-operative societies and insurance schemes, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 37
        },
        {
            "number": "39",
            "title": "39. Conditions for terminating the service of an employee and payment of gratuity.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Explanation.\n(a) the expression \"wages\" does not include over time wages;\n(b) the expression \"wages\" means the daily average of wages for the days an employee actually worked during the thirty days immediately preceding the date of termination of service;\n(c) an employee in an establishment shall be deemed to have been in continuous employment for a period of not less than six months, if he has worked for not less than one hundred and twenty days in that establishment within a period of six months immediately preceding the date of termination of the service of that employee;\n(d) where the total continuous employment is for a fraction of a year or extends over a fraction of a year in addition to one or more completed years of continuous employment, such fraction, if it is not less than half a year shall be counted as a year of continuous employment in calculating the total number of years for which the gratuity is to be given.\nExplanation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 38
        },
        {
            "number": "40",
            "title": "40. Appointment of authority to hear and decide appeals arising out of termination of service.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(b) Any employee whose service has been terminated may appeal to the authority concerned within such time and in such manner as may be prescribed.\n(a) if the authority is a Magistrate, by the authority, as if it were a fine imposed by him as Magistrate; and\n(b) if the authority is not a Magistrate, by any Magistrate to whom the authority makes application in this behalf, as if it were a fine imposed by such Magistrate.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 39
        },
        {
            "number": "41",
            "title": "41. Notice and payment of gratuity to employees in case of transfer of establishment.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the employment of the employee has not been interrupted by such transfer;\n(b) the terms and conditions of employment applicable to the employee after such transfer are not in any way less favourable to the employee than those applicable to him immediately before such transfer; and\n(c) the new employer is under the terms of such transfer or otherwise, legally liable to pay to the employee in the event of termination of his services, gratuity on the basis that his employment has been continuous and has not been interrupted by the transfer.\nChapter VIII\nAppointment, power and duties, etc., of the authority to hear and decide claims relating to wages, etc., of employees in establishments",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 40
        },
        {
            "number": "42",
            "title": "42. Appointment of the authority to hear and decide claims arising out of deductions from the employees, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 41
        },
        {
            "number": "43",
            "title": "43. Claims arising out of deductions from wages or delay in payment of wages, etc. and penalty for malicious or vexatious claims.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) a bonafide error or a bonafide dispute as to the amount payable to the employee, or\n(b) the existence of exceptional circumstances, such that the employer was unable, though exercising reasonable diligence to make prompt payment, or\n(c) the failure of the employee to accept payment.\n(a) if the authority is a Magistrate, by the authority as if it were a fine imposed by him as Magistrate; and\n(b) if the authority is not a Magistrate, by any Magistrate to whom the authority makes an application in this behalf, as if it were a fine imposed by such Magistrate.\nExplanation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 42
        },
        {
            "number": "44",
            "title": "44. Single application in respect of claims from unpaid group.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 43
        },
        {
            "number": "45",
            "title": "45. Appeal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) by the employer, if the total sum directed to be paid by way of wages, gratuity and compensation exceeds three hundred rupees, or\n(b) by the person who had applied under sub-section (1) of section 43 if the total amount of wages or gratuity claimed to have been withheld from the employee or from the unpaid group to which he belonged exceeds fifty rupees, or\n(c) by any person directed to pay a penalty under sub-section (2) of section 43.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 44
        },
        {
            "number": "46",
            "title": "46. Conditional attachment of property of employer.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 45
        },
        {
            "number": "42",
            "title": "47. Powers of authority appointed under section 42.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 46
        },
        {
            "number": "48",
            "title": "48. Powers of Government to prescribe costs and court-fees for proceedings under this chapter.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter IX\nAppointment, power and duties of Inspectors",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 47
        },
        {
            "number": "49",
            "title": "49. Appointment of Inspectors.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 48
        },
        {
            "number": "50",
            "title": "50. Powers and duties of Inspectors.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) enter at all reasonable hours with the assistance of such persons in the service of the Government or any local authority as he thinks fit, any place which is or which he has reason to believe, is used as an establishment;\n(b) make such inspection of the premises and of any registers or other records and take on the spot or otherwise evidence of such persons, as he may deem necessary, in the manner prescribed;\n(c) exercise such other powers as may be necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 49
        },
        {
            "number": "51",
            "title": "51. Inspectors to be public servants.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter X\nPenalties for Offences\n[52. Penalties.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 50
        },
        {
            "number": "53",
            "title": "53. Penalty for obstructing Inspector, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 51
        },
        {
            "number": "54",
            "title": "54. Procedure in trial of offence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) a bonafide error or bonafide dispute as to the amount payable to the employee; or\n(b) the existence of exceptional circumstances, such that the employer was unable, though exercising diligence, to make prompt payment; or\n(c) the failure of the employee to accept payment.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 52
        },
        {
            "number": "55",
            "title": "55. Bar of suits.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) forms the subject of an application under section 43 which has been presented by the plaintiff and which is pending before the authority appointed under section 42 or of an appeal under section 45; or\n(b) has formed the subject or a direction under section 43 in favour of the plaintiff; or\n(c) has been adjudged, in any proceeding under section 43 not to be owed to the plaintiff; or\n(d) could have been recovered by an application under section 43.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 53
        },
        {
            "number": "56",
            "title": "56. Contracting out.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter XI\nMiscellaneous",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 54
        },
        {
            "number": "57",
            "title": "57. Restriction on double employment, maintenance of registers, records, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
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        {
            "number": "58",
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            "number": "59",
            "title": "59. Power to make rules.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "60",
            "title": "60. Right and privilege under other law, etc., not affected.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "61",
            "title": "61. Exemptions.",
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            "content": "(a) employees in any establishments whose average monthly wages exceed [six thousand five hundred rupees] :\n(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;\n(c) establishments in mines and oil fields;\n(d) establishments in bazaar or in places where fairs or festivals are held temporarily for a period not exceeding one month at a time.\n[(e) establishments belonging to any nationalised, scheduled or co-operative bank;\n(f) establishments known as 'Gadas' as defined under clause (10-A) of section 2.]\n(a) hospitals and other institutions for treatment or care of the sick, the infirm, destitute or the mentally unfit;\n(b) such chemists' or druggists' shops as the Government may, by general or special order, specify;\n(c) hair-dressing shops, clubs and residential hotels, educational institutions, hostels attached to schools or colleges, and establishments maintained in connection with the boarding and lodging of pupils and resident masters;\n(d) stalls and refreshment rooms at railway stations, docks, wharves, ports, airports or bus stands;\n(e) establishments wholly or principally engaged in the sale of ice or aerated water;\n(f) establishments wholly or principally engaged in the sale of funeral requisites.\n(a) persons whose work is of an intermittent nature such as caretaker, sweeper, travelling staff;\n(b) persons employed for loading and unloading goods at godowns.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "62",
            "title": "62. Appointment of an authority to decide certain questions.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "63",
            "title": "63. Application of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 61
        },
        {
            "number": "64",
            "title": "64. Protection of persons acting under this Act.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "65",
            "title": "65. Power of Government to suspend provisions of the Act during fairs and festivals.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "66",
            "title": "66. Weekly Holidays Act 1942 not to apply to establishments governed by this Act.",
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            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 64
        },
        {
            "number": "67",
            "title": "67. Repeal and Savings.",
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            "content": "(a) every appointment, order, rule, notification or notice made, issued or given under the provisions of any of the Legislative Diplomas so repealed shall, in so far as it is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be deemed to have been made, issued or given under the provisions of this Act, unless and until superseded by any appointment, order, rule, notification or notice made, issued or given under this Act; and\n(b) any proceedings relating to the trial of any offence punishable under the provisions of the Legislative Diplomas so repealed shall be continued and completed as if the said Legislative Diplomas had not been repealed but had continued in operation and any penalty imposed on such proceeding shall be recovered under the Legislative Diplomas so repealed.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        "Act ID": "goa211",
        "Act Number": "(Act No. 13 of 1974)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1973",
        "Short Title": "The Goa, Daman and Diu Shops and Establishments Act, 1973",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Goa"
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    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:52:45"
}