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THE WEST PAKISTAN SHOPS AND ESTABLISHMENTS
ORDINANCE, 1969
CONTENTS
1. Short title, extent, commencement and application
2. Definitions
3. References to time of day
4. Power to grant exemptions
5. Ordinance not applicable to certain establishments and persons
6. Weekly holiday in establishments
7.
8. Daily, weekly hours and over-time
9. Over-time wages
10. Spread-over
11. Time and conditions of payment of wages
12. Claims arising out of delay in payment of wages and penalty for malicious or vexatious claims
13. Bar of suits
14. Annual leave
15. Casual and sick leave
16. Festival holidays
17. Wages during leave or holiday period
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18. Sections 14, 15, 16 and 17 not to apply to certain establishments
19. Termination of employment
20. Prohibition of employment of children
21. Contracting out
22. Guarding of machinery
23. Maintenance of records and registers
24. Registration of establishment and fee for registration
25. Appointment of Chief Inspector, Deputy Chief Inspectors and Inspectors
26. Powers of Inspectors
27. Penalties
28. Procedure
29. Limitation of prosecutions
30. Indemnity
31. Delegation of powers
32. Power to make rules
33. Saving of certain rights and privileges
34. Repeal and saving
SCHEDULE
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THE WEST PAKISTAN SHOPS AND ESTABLISHMENTS ORDINANCE,
1969
WEST PAKISTAN ORDINANCE No. VIII of 1969
[3rd June, 1969]
AN
ORDINANCE
to amend and consolidate the law relating to the hours and other conditions of work and employment
of persons employed in shops and commercial, industrial and other establishments in West Pakistan
and matters connected therewith.
Preamble. WHEREAS it is expedient to amend and consolidate the law relating to the hours
and other conditions of work and employment of persons employed in shops and commercial,
industrial and other establishments in West Pakistan and matters connected therewith;
NOW, THEREFORE, in pursuance of the Martial Law Proclamation of 25th March, 1969,
read with the Provisional Constitution Order, the Administrator of Martial Law, Zone A, in exercise
of the powers of the Governor of West Pakistan conferred on him by the Chief Martial Law
Administrator, is pleased to make and promulgate the following Ordinance:__
1. Short title, extent, commencement and application.__ (1) This Ordinance may be called
the West Pakistan Shops and Establishments Ordinance, 1969.
(2) It extends to the whole of 1[Pakistan].
(3) It shall come into force at once in such areas, and its provisions shall automatically apply
to such establishments or classes thereof, to which any law on the subject was applicable immediately
before the coming into force of this Ordinance.
(4) Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, extend the operation of this
Ordinance or any provisions thereof to any other area or establishment, or exclude any area or
establishment to which it extends, from its operation.
2. Definitions. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires__
(a) “adult” means a person who has completed his seventeenth year of age;
(b) “apprentice” means a person who is employed, whether on payment of wages
or not, for the purposes of being trained in any trade, craft or employment in
any establishment;
(c) “child” means a person who has not completed his twelfth year of age;
(d) “closed” means not open for the service of any customer or to any business
connected with the establishment;
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Subs. by the Federal Adaptation of Laws Order, 1975 (P.O. No. 4 of 1975), Article 2 and Schedule.
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(e) “commercial establishment” means an 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__
(i) a society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 (XXI of
1860), and a charitable or other trust, whether registered or not, which
carries on, whether for purposes of gain or not, any business, trade or
profession, or any work in connection with or incidental or ancillary
thereto;
(ii) an establishment wherein there is conducted the business of advertising,
commission, forwarding or a commercial agency;
(iii) a clerical department of a factory or of any industrial or commercial
undertaking;
(iv) an insurance company, joint stock company, bank, brokers’ offices or
exchange and office-of lawyers, income-tax practitioners, registered
accountants, contractors and engineers.
(v) such other professional establishment or class thereof as Government
may, by notification in the official Gazette, declare to be commercial
establishments for the purposes of this Ordinance;
but does not include a factory, shop, residential hotel, restaurant, eating
house, theatre or other place of public amusement or entertainment;
(f) “day” means the period of twenty-four hours beginning at mid-night, provided
that in the case of an employee, whose hours of work extend beyond mid-night,
day means the period of twenty four hours beginning when such employment
commences, irrespective of mid-night;
(g) “employee” means any person employed whether directly or otherwise, about
the business of an establishment for the owner or occupier thereof, even though
he receives no reward or remuneration for his labour, but does not include a
member of the employer’s family;
(h) “employer” means a person owning or having charge of the business of an
establishment, and includes an agent or manager or any other person acting on
behalf of such person in the general management or control of such
establishment;
(i) “employer’s family” means the employer’s husband or wife, as the case may
be, sons, daughters, father, mother, and brothers and sisters living with and
dependent on the employer;
(j) “establishment” means a shop, commercial establishment, industrial
establishment, private dispensary, maternity home, residential hotel, restaurant
eating house, café, cinema, theatre, circus, or other place of public amusement
or entertainment, and such other establishments or class thereof as Government
may, by notification in the official Gazette, declare to be establishments for the
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purposes of this Ordinance;
(k) “factory” means a factory as defined in clause (j) of section 2 of the Factories
Act, 1934 (XXV of 1934);
(l) “form” means a form specified in the Schedule;
(m) “Government” means 1[Provincial Government];
(n) “hours of work” or “working hours” with reference to an establishment means
the time during which the employees in the establishment are at the disposal of
the employer, exclusive of any interval allowed for rest and meals;
(o) “industrial establishment” means a workshop or other establishment in which
the work of making, altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing or packing or
otherwise treating any article or substance with a view to its use, sale, transport,
delivery, or disposal is carried on, or where any such service is rendered to a
customer, and includes such other class or classes of establishments as
Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, declare to be industrial
establishments for the purposes of this Ordinance, but does not include a
factory;
(p) “permanent employee” means an employee who has been engaged on a
permanent basis, and includes an employee who has completed nine months
continuous service in one or different occupations in the same establishment,
including breaks due to sickness, accident, leave, illegal lock outs, legal strikes
or involuntary closure of the establishment, and has satisfactorily completed a
probationary period of three months;
(q) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Ordinance;
(r) “residential hotel” means any premises in which a bona fide business is carried
on for the supply of dwelling accommodation and meals on payment of a sum
of money by a traveller or any other member of the public or class of the public
and includes a club;
(s) “restaurant” and “eating house” mean any premises in which is carried on
wholly or principally the business of the supply of meals or refreshments to the
public or a class of the public for consumption on the premises;
(t) “retail trade” includes the business of a barber or hair-dresser, the sale of
refreshments or intoxicating liquors, and sales by auctions;
(u) “shop” means any premises used wholly or in part for the whole-sale or retail
sale of commodities or articles, either for cash or on credit, or where services
are rendered to customers, and includes an office, a store room, godown,
warehouse or place of work, whether in the same premises or otherwise, mainly
used in connection with such trade or business;
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Subs. by the Federal Adaptation of Laws Order, 1975 (P.O. No. 4 of 1975), Article 2 and Schedule.
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(v) “temporary employee” means an employee who has been engaged for work
which is of an essentially temporary nature likely to be finished within a period
not exceeding nine months;
(w) “wages” means wages as defined in the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 (IV of
1936);
(x) “week” means a period of seven days beginning at mid-night on Saturday night;
(y) “young person” means a person who is not a child and has not completed his
seventeenth year of age.
3. References to time of day.__ References to time of day in this Ordinance are references to
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[Pakistan] Standard time.
4. Power to grant exemptions.__ Government may, by notification in the official Gazette,
exempt from the operation of all or any of the provisions of this Ordinance any establishment or any
class thereof or any employer or employee or class of employers or employees on such conditions as
it may think fit.
5. Ordinance not applicable to certain establishments and persons.__ (1) Nothing in this
Ordinance shall apply to–
(i) offices of or under the 1[Federal] or Provincial Government;
(ii) offices of or under the Pakistan 1[*] Railway Board, including railway stations;
(iii) offices of or under any local authority, a trust, a corporation or any other public
statutory body, which is not run for profit or gain or in the course of its business
does not make any profit or gain;
(iv) shops or stalls in any public exhibition or show, in so far as such shops or stalls
deal in retail trade which is solely subsidiary or ancillary to the main purpose of
such exhibition or show;
(v) shops or stalls in any public fair or bazar held for religious or charitable
purposes;
(vi) clubs, hostels, and messes not maintained for profit or gain;
(vii) establishments for the treatment or care of the sick, infirm, destitute or mentally
unfit persons;
(viii) stalls and refreshment rooms at railway stations, streamer and launch stations,
docks, wharves and air ports, and on trains, steamers or air crafts, so far as the
sale of commodities is concerned;
(ix) any person employed as manager, travelling agent, canvasser, messenger,
watchman, caretaker or conservancy staff or any person employed exclusively
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Subs. and omitted by the Federal Adaptation of Laws Order, 1975 (P.O. No. 4 of 1975), Article 2 and Schedule.
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in connection with the collection, despatch, delivery, and conveyance of, or
custom formalities on, goods;
(x) any person employed for the business of any shop or commercial establishment
mentioned in clauses (i) to (viii).
(2) Nothing in clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 6 and in section 7 shall apply to__
(i) clubs, hostels and messes maintained for profit or gain, so far as service and
attendance upon customers is concerned;
(ii) shops dealing solely in any vegetables, meat, fish, dairy products, bread,
pastries, sweet-meats and flowers, so far as the sale of these articles is
concerned;
(iii) shops dealing mainly in medicines, surgical appliances, bandages or other
medical requisites, so far as the sale of these articles is concerned;
(iv) shops dealing in articles required for funerals, burials or cremations, so far as
the sale of these articles is concerned;
(v) shops dealing mainly in tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, biries, pan, liquid
refreshments sold retail for consumption on the premises, ice, newspapers or
periodicals, so far as the sale of these articles is concerned;
(vi) automobile service stations (not being repair shops) and petrol pumps for the
retail sale of petrol;
(vii) barbers and hair-dressers’ shops, so far as service to customers is concerned;
(viii) cinemas, theatres and other places of public entertainment.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (2), Government may, by general or
special order, fix the opening and closing hours for all or any of the classes of establishments specified
therein.
(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-sections (1) and (2), Government may, by
notification in the official Gazette, direct that any of the establishments or persons specified therein
shall not be exempted from the operation of such provisions of this Ordinance as are specified in such
notification, and thereupon the provisions of this Ordinance specified in such notification shall apply
to such establishments or persons.
6. Weekly holiday in establishments.__ 1[(1) Except as otherwise provided in this Ordinance
every person employed in any establishment shall, in addition to the leave and holidays as may be
admissible to him under section 14, 15 and 16 be allowed as holiday, one day in each week.]
(2) No deduction on account of any holiday allowed under sub-section (1) shall be made from
the wages of any employee of any establishment.
(3) If an employee is employed on daily wages, he shall none-the-less be paid his daily wages
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Subs. by the Finance Act, 2006 (III of 2006), s. 9.
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for the holiday, and where an employee is paid on piece-rate, he shall receive for the holiday the
average of the wages received during the week.
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(4) [* * * * * * *]
(5) The choice of a closed day shall rest with the employer, who shall intimate such choice to
the prescribed authority__
(a) in the case of an establishment existing at the time this Ordinance comes into
force, within two months thereof; and
(b) in the case of an establishment set up after the coming into force of this
Ordinance, or to which the provisions of this Ordinance are subsequently
applied, within two months of the setting up of the establishment or the
application of the provisions of this section thereto, as the case may be.
(6) An employer who has intimated his choice of a closed day under the provisions of sub-
section (5), shall not change the closed day for the establishment without the prior approval in writing
of the prescribed authority.
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[7. (1) No establishment shall on any day remain open after 8:00 p. m:
Provided that any customer who was being or was waiting in the establishment to be served at
such hour, may be served during the period of thirty minutes immediately following such hour:
Provided further that Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, fix any other
hour after which establishments generally or any class of establishment shall not remain open.
(2) Every employer shall display, at a prominent place in the establishment, a board specifying
the hours during which the establishment will remain open.
(3) No employee shall be required or permitted to work continuously in any establishment for
more than six hours in the case of an adult and for more than three and half hours in the case of a young
person, unless he has been allowed an interval for rest or meal of not less than one hour.
(4) Except with the permission of Government, no woman or young person shall be employed
in any establishment otherwise than between the hours of 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.]
8. Daily, weekly hours and over-time.__ (1) Save as otherwise expressly provided in this
Ordinance, no adult employee shall be required or permitted to work in any establishment in excess of
nine hours a day and forty-eight hours a week, and no young person in excess of seven hours a day
and forty-two hours a week:
Provided that in any day or in any week, in which there occurs stock-taking, making up of
accounts, settlement or such other business operation, and during such other business operation, and
during such other periods as may be prescribed, an adult employee of an establishment may be required
or permitted to work over-time in such establishment for more than nine hours in such day
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Omitted by the Finance Act, 2006 (III of 2006), s. 9
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Subs. by the West Pakistan Ordinance No. XVII of 1969, s. 2.
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and for more than forty-eight hours in such week, and a young person for more than seven hours in
such day and for more than forty-two hours in such week, but so that the total number of hours so
worked by an adult does not exceed 1[six hundred and twenty four] hours and by a young person 1[four
hundred and sixty-eight] hours in any one year.
9. Over-time wages.__ When any employee is required to work over-time in any establishment,
as provided in the proviso to section 8, the wages payable to such employee in respect of such over-
time work shall be calculated at double the ordinary rate of wages payable to him 1[:]
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[Provided that no overtime shall be payable to the contract worker employed on piece rate
basis.]
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[10. Spread-over.__ The period of work of an adult and young person shall be so arranged that
inclusive of the interval for rest or meals under section 7, it shall not spread-over more than twelve
hours in the case of adult and nine hours in the case of young person:
Provided that the total period of work so worked out, in case of an adult worker, shall not
exceed sixty hour and by a young person fifty-four hours in a weak.]
11. Time and conditions of payment of wages.__ (1) Every employer or his agent or the
manager of an establishment shall fix the period in respect of which wages to employees shall be
payable and shall be responsible for the payment to persons employed by him of all wages required to
be paid under this Ordinance.
(2) No wage period, so fixed, shall exceed one month.
(3) The wages of every employee in any establishment shall be paid on a working day before
the expiry of the seventh day of the last day of the wage period in respect of which the wages are
payable.
(4) All wages shall be paid in legal tender.
(5) Where the employment of any person is terminated by or on behalf of the employer, the
wages and other dues earned by such person shall be paid before the expiry of the second working day
after the day on which his employment is terminated.
12. Claims arising out of delay in payment of wages and penalty for malicious or vexatious
__
claims. (1) Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, appoint any person to be the
Authority to hear and decide for any specified area all claims arising out of delay in the payment or
non-payment of the wages of employees in that area.
(2) When contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance, wages of any employee have been
delayed or withheld, such employee himself or through any other person, whom he may authorise in
this behalf, may within four months from the day on which such payment was to be made, apply to the
Authority appointed under sub-section (1):
Provided that an application may be admitted after the said period of four months but not later
than six months, if the applicant satisfies the Authority that he had sufficient cause for not making the
application within such period.
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Subs. and Added by the Finance Act, 2006 (III of 2006), s. 9.
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(3) When any application under sub-section (2) is entertained, the Authority shall hear the
applicant and the employer or other person responsible for the payment of wages or give them an
opportunity of being heard and, after such further inquiry, if any, as may be necessary, may without
prejudice to any other penalty to which such employer or other person is liable under this Ordinance,
direct that payment be made to the applicant of delayed wages together with the payment of such
penalty, not exceeding fifty rupees, as the Authority may fix:
Provided that no direction for the payment of penalty shall be made in the case of delayed
wages if the Authority is satisfied that the delay was due to__
(a) a bona fide error or bona fide dispute as to the amount payable to the employee;
or
(b) the occurrence of an emergency, or the existence of such exceptional
circumstances that the person responsible for the payment of the wages was
unable to make prompt payment; or
(c) the fault of the employee.
(4) If the Authority hearing any application under this section is satisfied that it was either
malicious or vexatious, the Authority may direct that a penalty not exceeding fifty rupees be paid to
the employer or other person responsible for the payment of wages by the person presenting the
application.
(5) Any amount directed to be paid under this section may be recovered__
(a) if the Authority is a Magistrate, by the Authority as if it were a fine imposed by
him as Magistrate; and
(b) if the Authority is not a Magistrate, by the any Magistrate to whom the Authority
makes application in this behalf as if it was a fine imposed by such Magistrate.
(6) An appeal against a direction made by the Authority under sub-section (3) or sub-section
(4) may be preferred to the District Court within thirty days of the date on which the direction was
made__
(a) by the employer or other person responsible for the payment of wages under
section 11 if the total sum directed to be paid by way of wages and penalty
exceeds one hundred rupees; or
(b) by an employee, if the total amount of wages claimed to have been withheld
from him or from the unpaid group to which he belonged, exceeds fifty rupees;
or
(c) by any person directed to pay a penalty under sub-section (4).
(7) If there is no appeal, the direction of the Authority made under sub-section (3) or sub-
section (4) shall be final, and where there is an appeal as provided in sub-section (6), the decision in
appeal shall be final.
(8) An Authority appointed under sub-section (1) shall, for the purposes of determining any
matter referred to in sub-section (3) or sub-section (4)__
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(a) have all the powers as are vested in a Civil Court under the Code of Civil
Procedure, 1908 (V of 1908), for enforcing the attendance of witnesses,
compelling the production of documents, and taking of evidence; and
(b) be deemed to be a Civil Court for all the purposes of section 195 and Chapter
XXXV of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (V of 1898).
13. Bar of suits.__ No Court shall entertain any suit for the recovery of wages in so far as the
sum so claimed__
(a) forms the subject of an application made under sub-section (2) of section 12,
which is pending before the Authority appointed under sub-section (1) of that
section or of an appeal under sub-section (6) of the said section;
(b) has formed the subject of a direction made under sub-section (3) of section 12;
(c) has been adjudged in any proceedings under section 12 not to be owed to an
employee; or
(d) could have been recovered by an application under section 12.
14. Annual leave.__ (1) Every employee shall be allowed leave with full wages for a period of
fourteen days after continuous employment in an establishment, whether in the same or different
capacities, for a period of twelve months.
(2) If an employee does not in any period of twelve months avail of the whole or any part of
the leave allowed to him under sub-section (1)__
(a) any leave not availed of by him shall be added to the leave to be allowed to him
under that sub-section in the succeeding period of twelve months; provided that
when the total leave due to an employee under this section amounts to thirty
days, no further accumulation of or addition to such leave will be permissible;
(b) he may, at his request, in lieu of the leave not availed of by him, be paid by the
employer full wages for such leave.
(3) For the purposes of computing the period during which an employee has been in continuous
employment within the meaning of sub-section (1), the period during which he was on leave under this
section, or sections 15 and 16, shall be included.
15. Casual and sick leave.__ (1) Every employee shall be entitled to casual leave with full
wages for ten days in a calendar year. Such leave shall not ordinarily be granted for more than three
days at a time and shall not be accumulated.
(2) Every employee shall be entitled to sick leave with full wages for a total period of eight
days in every year. Such leave, if not availed of by any employee during a calendar year, may be
carried forward, but the total accumulation of such leave shall not exceed sixteen days at any one time.
16. Festival holidays.__ Every employee shall be allowed ten days festival holidays with full
wages in a year. The days and dates for such festival holidays shall be notified to the employees by the
employer in the beginning of the calendar year.
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17. Wages during leave or holiday period.__ (1) For each day of the leave or holidays allowed
to an employee under sections 14, 15 and 16, he shall be paid at the rate equivalent to the daily average
amount, which, during the three months preceding the leave or holidays, was being earned by the
employee.
(2) An employee, who has been allowed leave under section 14 for any period not less than
four days in the case of an adult and five days in the case of a young person, shall before the leave
begins, be paid his wages for the period of the leave allowed.
18. Sections 14, 15, 16 and 17 not to apply to certain establishments.__ The provisions of
sections 14, 15, 16 and 17 shall not apply in relation to employees employed in commercial
establishments as defined in clause (b) of section 2 of the West Pakistan Industrial and Commercial
Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance, 1968 (West Pakistan Ordinance VI of 1968).
19. Termination of employment.– (1) For terminating employment of a permanent employee,
one month’s notice in writing shall be given either by the employer or by the employee and in lieu of
notice, one month’s wages calculated on the basis of average of wages earned during the preceding
three months shall be paid.
(2) No temporary employee, whether monthly rated, weekly rated or daily rated, and no
apprentice shall be entitled to any notice or pay in lieu thereof if his services are terminated, but the
services of a temporary employee shall not be terminated as a punishment unless he has been given an
opportunity of explaining the charges levelled against him.
20. Prohibition of employment of children.__ No child shall be required or allowed to work
in any establishment.
21. Contracting out.__ Any contract or agreement, whether made before or after the
commencement of this Ordinance, whereby an employee relinquished any right conferred by this
Ordinance shall be null and void in so far as it purports to deprive him of such right.
22. Guarding of machinery.__ In every industrial establishment, all mechanically or
electrically propelled machinery shall be guarded in the prescribed manner.
23. Maintenance of records and registers.__ Every employer shall, for the purpose of this
Ordinance, maintain such records and registers and furnish such information as may be prescribed.
24. Registration of establishment and fee for registration.__ (1) Every establishment, other
than a one man shop, as hereinafter defined, and factories employing clerical staff within the factory
premises, shall be registered with the Deputy Chief Inspector for the area within which such
establishment is situated.
(2) An application for registration of an establishment shall be made by the employer in form
‘A’ and shall be accompanied by a Treasury Challan under Head “47__Misc. Deptts-B(i) __ Labour”
for an amount of__
Rs. 2.00 in the case of an establishment employing 1 to 5 workers.
Rs. 3.00 in the case of an establishment employing 6 to 10 workers.
Rs. 5.00 in the case of an establishment employing 11 to 20 workers.
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Rs. 10.00 in the case of an establishment employing more than 20 workers.
Explanation.__ For the purposes of this section, “one man shop” means a shop run by an
employer or by any member of his family without engaging an employee.
(3) An application for registration of an establishment shall be made–
(a) in the case of an establishment existing at the time this Ordinance comes into
force, within three months thereof; and
(b) in the case of an establishment set up after the coming into force of this
Ordinance or to which the provisions of this Ordinance are subsequently
applied, within two months of the setting up of the establishment or the
application of this Ordinance thereto, as the case may be.
(4) On receipt of the application and the fees specified in sub-section (2), the Deputy Chief
Inspector shall, on being satisfied about the correctness of the application, register the establishment
in the Register of Establishments to be maintained in form ‘B’ and shall issue a registration certificate
to the employer in form ‘C’.
(5) The registration certificate shall be prominently displayed by the employer at the
establishment and shall be renewed after every two years on depositing fee as prescribed in sub-section
(2).
25. Appointment of Chief Inspector, Deputy Chief Inspectors and Inspectors.– (1)
Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, appoint__
(a) a Chief Inspector of Shops for the whole of the Province;
(b) Deputy Chief Inspectors of Shops for such areas as may be notified; and
(c) such persons or class of persons as it thinks fit to be Inspectors for the purposes
of this Ordinance within such local limits as may be specified by the Chief
Inspector of Shops.
(2) The Chief Inspector of Shops and the Deputy Chief Inspectors of Shops__
(a) shall supervise the work of Inspectors appointed under clause (c) of sub-section
(1) in such manner as may be prescribed; and
(b) may exercise all or any of the powers of an Inspector.
(3) The Chief Inspector of Shops, Deputy Chief Inspectors of Shops and Inspectors appointed
under sub-section (1) shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of section 21 of the
Pakistan Penal Code (XLV of 1860).
26. Powers of Inspectors.__ An Inspector appointed under section 25 may, for the purposes of
this Ordinance and within the local limits for which he is appointed, at all reasonable times enter into
any place which is, or which he has reason to believe is, an establishment, with such assistants, if any,
being persons in the service of Government, and make such examination of that place or of any
prescribed record, register, or other documents maintained therein, and may require such explanation
of any prescribed record, register or other documents and do all such things as he considers necessary
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for the purpose of this Ordinance.
27. Penalties.__ (1) If any employer, with intent to deceive, makes or causes or allows to be
made, in any register, record or notice required to be maintained under the provisions of this Ordinance
or the rules made thereunder, any entry, or wilfully omits or causes or allows to be omitted from any
such register, record or notice, any entry which is required to be made thereunder, or maintains or
causes or allows to be maintained more than one set of any such register, record or notice except the
office copy of such notice, or sends or causes or allows to be sent to an Inspector any statement,
information or notice required to be sent under the provisions of this Ordinance or the rules made
thereunder, which to his knowledge is false in any material particulars, he shall, on conviction, be
punished with fine which shall not be less than fifty rupees and which may extend to two hundred
rupees.
(2) Whoever contravenes any of the provisions of section 6, 7, 19 or 20 shall, on conviction,
be punishable with fine which for the first offence may extend to rupees two hundred and fifty, and
for a second or subsequent offence with fine which may extend to rupees five hundred or with simple
imprisonment which may extend to three months, or with both.
(3) Whoever contravenes any other provisions of this Ordinance shall, on conviction, be
punishable with fine which for the first offence may extend to rupees one hundred and fifty, and for a
second or any subsequent offence, to rupees two hundred and fifty or with simple imprisonment which
may extend to three months, or with both.
28. Procedure.__ (1) No prosecution under this Ordinance or any rules made thereunder shall
be instituted except by or with the previous sanction of an Inspector, or other officer or authority
specially empowered by Government in this behalf.
(2) No Court inferior to that of a Magistrate of the first class shall try an offence punishable
under this Ordinance or any rule made thereunder.
29. Limitation of prosecutions.__ No Court shall take cognizance of any offence punishable
under this Ordinance or any rule made thereunder unless complaint thereof is made within three
months from the date on which the alleged commission of the offence comes to the knowledge of an
Inspector.
30. Indemnity.__ No suit, prosecution or legal proceedings shall lie against any person in
respect of anything done in good faith under this Ordinance or the rules thereunder.
31. Delegation of powers.__ Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, delegate
all or any of its powers under this Ordinance or the rules thereunder to any subordinate authority or
agency as may be considered expedient by it.
32. Power to make rules.__ (1) Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, make
rules for carrying out the purposes of this Ordinance.
(2) In making rules under this section, Government may direct that any person committing
breach thereof shall, on conviction, be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty rupees, and
where the breach is a continuing one, with a further fine which may extend to ten rupees for every day,
after the first, during which the breach continues.
33. Saving of certain rights and privileges.__ Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect any right
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or privilege to which an employee is entitled on the date of the commencement of this Ordinance under
any law for the time being in force or under any award, agreement, settlement, contract, custom or
usage which is in force on that date, if such right or privilege is more favourable to him than any right
or privilege conferred upon him by this Ordinance.
34. Repeal and saving.__ (1) The following enactments, hereinafter referred to as the said Acts,
are hereby repealed:__
(a) The Sindh Shops and Establishments Act, 1940 (Sind XVIII of 1940);
(b) The Punjab Trade Employees Act, 1940 (Punjab X of 1940);
(c) The North-West Frontier Trade Employees Act, 1947 (N.W.F.P. XX of 1947);
and
(d) The Weekly Holidays Act, 1942 (XVIII of 1942).
(2) Notwithstanding the repeal of the said Acts, everything done, orders passed, action taken,
obligation, liability, penalty or punishment incurred, enquiry or proceeding commenced, officer
appointed or person authorised, jurisdiction or power conferred, rule made or notification issued, under
any of the provisions of the said Acts, shall, if not inconsistent with the provisions of this Ordinance,
continue in force and be deemed to have been done, passed, taken, incurred, commenced, appointed,
authorised, conferred, made or issued under the provisions of this Ordinance.
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SCHEDULE
[See SECTION (2) (l) AND SECTION 24]
FORM ‘A’
APPLICATION FORM
1. Name of the establishment, if any.
2. Postal address of the establishment.
3. Full name of the employer (including his father’s name).
4. Full name of the Manager, if any (including his father’s name).
5. Category of the establishment, i.e. whether a shop, industrial establishment, commercial
establishment, residential hotel, restaurant, eating house, theatre or other place of public
amusement or entertainment.
6. Total number of employees (state separately the number of men, women and/ or young
persons (if any).
7. Date on which the establishment commenced its work.
8. I hereby declare that the details given above are correct to the best of my knowledge.
Dated Signature of the Employer
Note__ This statement shall be sent to the Deputy Chief Inspector of the area concerned with
such fees as are prescribed in section 24 (2) of the West Pakistan Shops and
Establishment Ordinance, 1969.
Signature.
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FORM ‘B’
REGISTER OF ESTABLISHMENTS
Part I–Shops.
Part II–Commercial Establishments.
Part III–Residential Hotels.
Part IV–Restaurants and Eating Houses.
Part V–Theaters and other places of Public Amusements or Entertainment.
NUMBER OF TOTAL NUMBER
Postal address of the establishment.
managerial positions and employees
Number of other persons occupying
MEMBERS OF OF EMPLOYEES.
engaged in confidential capacity.
Name of the Manager, if any
EMPLOYER’S
Name of the establishment.
Registration certificate No.
Nature of the business.
FAMILY
Date of registration.
Name of employer.
Date of Inspection.
Date of renewal.
Serial No.
Young
Male Female Adult Young
persons
persons
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Form ‘C’
REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE
Name of the Establishment, if any.
Name of the employer.
Postal address of the establishment.
Registration No.
It is hereby certified that the establishment as mentioned herein has been registered as a ___________________ under the West Pakistan Shops
and Establishment Ordinance, 1969, this ________________ day of ____________________
Chief Inspector of Shops, West Pakistan
RENEWALS
Date of renewal From To Signature of the Chief Inspector of Shops with
seal
1.
2.
3.
*Here insert category of the establishment.
RGN Date: 28-04-2025
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Source: Pakistan Code, Ministry of Law and Justice (pakistancode.gov.pk). Text on this page is reproduced verbatim from the official PDF and is provided for reference only. For the authoritative version, always consult the source document or a current reported edition.
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