Does not apply as set · Andaman and Nicobar Islands: the shops Regulation applies from 20 workers (you have 18)Act/Rule-sourced

Shops and Establishment Act

Registration under the state's shops Act, and renewal.

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
By when: Within thirty days of the Regulation coming into force for an existing establishment, or of the date a new establishment is establishedSection 4(6) read with section 4(2)
How: Online, to the Registering Officer, in the prescribed formSection 4(2), as substituted in 2025
The certificate: Form B, issued electronically with no requirement of prior approval, on auto-approval mode, and valid for the lifetime of the establishment or until the employer intimates closureRule 4, as substituted by the A&N Islands Shops and Establishments Rules, 2005, as amended in 2026
Renewal: None. The annual renewal the 2005 rules required was omitted in 2026Rule 5 of the 2005 rules, omitted by the A&N Islands Shops and Establishments Rules, 2005, as amended in 2026
The fee: ₹1,000 for twenty to twenty-nine employees; ₹1,500 for thirty to forty-nine; ₹2,000 for fifty or moreThe Schedule to the Regulation, as substituted in 2025, read with section 4(4)
Already registered under ESI or EPF: Not yet addedThe Regulation carries no deeming provision of that kind; what rule 12A does provide is that registration under the Regulation counts as compliance with registration under the OSH Code.