Andaman and Nicobar Islands Shops and Establishments Regulation, 2004
- Notification number
- None — this document carries no number
- Issued for
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Date
- 12 February 2004
- Topic
- Act
What it says
The principal Regulation, in the Gazette of India Extraordinary of 12 February 2004. It carries the figures the 2025 amendment did not touch: forty-eight hours a week, overtime at twice the rate of normal wages, a twelve-hour spread-over, a weekly holiday with its protections, and leave — fifteen days with wages after 240 days' service, accumulating to forty-five, with twelve days' casual and twelve days' sick leave a year and full wages for leave due on discharge.
What was taken from it
The figures and statements this desk reads off this document, as extracted. Each one is shown on the topic page it belongs to: Leave encashment · Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Establishment calendar · Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Holiday list · Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Working hours · Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Leaves — CL / SL / EL / ML · Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Shops and Establishment Act · Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Overtime · Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Timing of establishment · Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Women workers · Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
- Encashment.Discharge
- Where an employee entitled to leave is discharged before being allowed it, or the leave applied for was refused, the employer pays full wages for the period of leave due
- Weekly.Off.Protection
- It is not lawful for an employer to call an employee to the establishment, or for an employee to go there, for any work connected with its business on a weekly holiday
- Holidays.Pay
- No deduction may be made on account of the weekly holiday, and an employee on daily wages is paid for it nonetheless
- Holidays.Weekly
- One day of the week, on which the establishment closes and every person employed is allowed a holiday for rest
- Hours.Spreadover
- Twelve hours for an adult employee, eight hours for a young person, on any day
- Hours.Weekly
- 48 hours in any one week
- Hours.Young
- No young person may work more than five hours in any day
- Leave.Apply
- In writing not less than seven full working days before the leave, and on not more than three occasions in twelve months; leave of five days or more is paid in advance on request
- Leave.Carry
- 45 days
- Leave.Casual
- 12 days casual leave and 12 days sick leave with wages, in each twelve months after the first
- Leave.Earned
- 15 days with wages in the next twelve months, for an employee who has served 240 days or more in a continuous period of twelve months
- Registration.By
- Within thirty days of the Regulation coming into force for an establishment existing at its commencement, or of the date a new establishment is established
- Overtime.Rate
- Twice the rate of normal wages
- Timing.Power
- The Administrator may fix opening and closing hours by notification, and may fix different hours for different establishments, classes, areas or times of the year. No such notification was found
- Women.Night.Base
- The principal Regulation's section 21 was substituted in 2025; the substituted section is filed under the amending Regulation
Where this is cited
- Leave encashment · Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Establishment calendar · Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Holiday list · Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Working hours · Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Leaves — CL / SL / EL / ML · Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Shops and Establishment Act · Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Overtime · Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Timing of establishment · Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Women workers · Andaman and Nicobar Islands