Applies to this profile · S&E / OSH / maternity

Leaves — CL / SL / EL / ML

What accrues, what lapses.

Settled by the rules themselves

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands have legislated which law prevails

On every other page of this desk, the shops Act and the OSH Code are shown side by side because which of them governs has not been settled. Here rule 12A settles it in terms.

The OSH Code applies to every shop or establishment with 10 or more workers; the Regulation applies from 20.
An establishment of twenty or more registered under the Regulation is deemed to have complied with registration under the Code, and no establishment the Code applies to registers separately under the Regulation.
For ten to nineteen workers the Code applies and the Regulation's registration provisions do not.
Where both cover an establishment, the Code governs occupational safety, health, working conditions and welfare, and the Regulation continues to apply to matters the Code does not expressly regulate.
On any inconsistency between the two, the provision more beneficial to the employee or worker prevails.

Rule 12A, inserted by the A&N Islands Shops and Establishments (Amendment) Rules, 2026 — A&N Gazette Extraordinary No. 247 of 12 August 2026

Not yet verified against an official source

A&N Islands Shops and Establishments Regulation, 2004, as amended in 2025

Who the Regulation applies to: Shops and establishments employing 20 or more persons, or that employed that many on any day of the preceding twelve months. Below twenty it does not apply — though the OSH Code does, from tenSection 1A, inserted by the (Amendment) Regulation, 2025
Earned leave: An employee who has served 240 days or more in a continuous period of twelve months is entitled, during the next twelve months, to fifteen days' leave with wagesSection 14(1)
Accumulation: Up to a maximum of forty-five daysFirst proviso to section 14(1)
Sick leave: Up to twelve days with wages in each twelve months after the first, on the ground of sickness or accidentSection 14(4)(a)
Casual leave: Up to twelve days with wages in each twelve months after the first, on any reasonable groundSection 14(4)(b)
Applying for leave: In writing, not less than seven full working days before the leave; and leave may not be granted on more than three occasions in twelve monthsSection 14(2) and its proviso
Wages in advance: An employee allowed not less than five days' leave is, on request before the leave begins, paid the wages due for it in advanceSection 14(3)
Service before the Regulation applied: Continuous service of up to twelve months immediately before the Regulation applied to the establishment counts towards the entitlement, and leave already accumulated under the earlier law is not affectedSecond and third provisos to section 14(1)

OSH Code, 2020

Earned leave: 1 day for every 20 days workedOccupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020
Earned leave eligibility: After 180 days of work in a calendar yearOccupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020
Earned leave carry-forward: Up to 30 daysOccupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020
Casual or sick leave: No separate entitlement in the CodeOccupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020