97/2025
Andaman and Nicobar Islands Shops and Establishments (Amendment) Regulation, 2025
- Notification number
- 97/2025
- Issued for
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Date
- 20 November 2025
- Topic
- Act
What it says
Promulgated by the President under Article 240 and published in the A&N Extraordinary Gazette of 20 November 2025. Applies the Regulation to establishments of twenty or more persons; moves registration online with the fee schedule substituted at Rs. 1,000, Rs. 1,500 and Rs. 2,000 by size; raises the daily hours limit from nine to ten, the limit including overtime from ten to twelve, and the quarterly overtime cap from fifty hours to one hundred and forty-four; lengthens the continuous-work period from five hours to six with a half-hour break; and substitutes section 21 on the employment of wom
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: Working hours · Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Shops and Establishment Act · Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Overtime · Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Women workers · Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
- Hours.Daily
- 10 hours in any day
- Hours.Including.Overtime
- Total hours of work including overtime may not exceed twelve hours in any day, except on days of stock-taking and preparation of accounts
- Hours.Interval
- No adult employee may work continuously for more than six hours unless he has had an interval for rest of at least half an hour
- Application
- The Regulation applies to all establishments in which twenty or more persons are employed or were employed on any day of the preceding twelve months
- Registration.Fee
- Rs. 1,000 for twenty or more but less than thirty employees; Rs. 1,500 for thirty or more but less than fifty; Rs. 2,000 for fifty or more
- Registration.How
- The employer applies online to the Registering Officer in the prescribed form, and on registration generates the certificate from the Labour Department's web portal on paying the fee electronically
- Overtime.Cap
- 144 hours in a period of three continuous months
- Women.Hazardous
- Where the Administrator considers the employment of women in a particular hazardous or dangerous process dangerous for their health and safety, he may require the employer to provide adequate safeguards as may be prescribed before employing women for that operation
- Women.Night
- No woman or young person shall be required or permitted to work whether as an employee or otherwise in any establishment between the hours of 7 P.M. and 6 A.M.
- Women.Night.Consent
- Women workers may, with their consent, be allowed to work between 7 P.M. and 6 A.M. in any establishment in which adequate safety and security measures or provisions for holidays, as may be prescribed, are provided by the employer