**Executive Summary**
The document is the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Shops and Establishments (Amendment) Regulation, 2025, which amends the 2004 Regulation. Promulgated by the President of India, this regulation updates various sections related to registration, working hours, and the employment of women. It will come into force on a date appointed by the Administrator via notification in the Official Gazette.
**Key Points / Main Content**
* **Applicability:**
* The Regulation now applies to establishments with twenty or more employees or those that had twenty or more employees in the previous twelve months.
* **Amendment to Section 3:**
* The definition of ‘Shop’ now includes places that have twenty persons employed, instead of the previous three.
* **Registration Process (Section 4):**
* Employers must apply online for registration within a specified period.
* Upon satisfactory verification, the Registering Officer will register the establishment. The employer then generates the registration certificate from the Labour Department's web portal after electronic payment of fees, not exceeding the amount in Schedule column (3).
* Sub-section (7) of section 4 is omitted.
* **Working Hours (Sections 7 & 8):**
* The regular working hours are increased from nine to ten hours.
* The allowance for extended hours increases from ten to twelve hours.
* The maximum permissible overtime is increased from fifty to one hundred and forty-four hours.
* **Interval for Rest (Section 9):**
* The interval for rest is increased from five to six hours, unless an interval for rest of at least half an hour has already been observed.
* **Employment of Women and Young Persons (Section 21):**
* Women and young persons cannot work in establishments between 7 PM and 6 AM.
* Women workers may be allowed to work between 7 PM and 6 AM with their consent, provided the employer ensures adequate safety, security, and holiday provisions.
* Administrator may require provision of adequate safeguards where employment of women is dangerous for their health and safety.
* **Omission of Clauses (Section 34):**
* Clauses (d) and (e) of sub-section (2) are omitted.
* **Updated Fees (Schedule):**
* The registration certificate fees are revised:
* Rs. 1,000 for establishments with twenty or more but less than thirty employees.
* Rs. 1,500 for establishments with thirty or more but less than fifty employees.
* Rs. 2,000 for establishments with fifty or more employees.
**Impact Analysis**
**Stakeholder: Employers in Andaman and Nicobar Islands**
* **Impact:** Increased compliance burden due to new applicability criteria, online registration, adjusted working hours, and restrictions on employing women and young persons during specific hours. New requirements for safety and security measures for women working between 7PM and 6AM.
* **Action Required:** Assess current workforce and registration status, implement online registration process, adjust working hours and overtime policies, ensure compliance with restrictions on women/young person employment, and ensure adequate safety and security.
**Stakeholder: Employees in Andaman and Nicobar Islands**
* **Impact:** Potential changes to working hours, rest intervals, and overtime opportunities. Increased protection for women and young persons against night work.
* **Action Required:** Be aware of updated working hour policies, ensure compliance with rest interval provisions, and report any violations of employment restrictions.
**Stakeholder: Labour Department of Andaman and Nicobar Islands**
* **Impact:** Changes to the registration process and monitoring of compliance.
* **Action Required:** Update web portal for online registration and certificate generation, revise enforcement procedures based on new working hour regulations and restrictions on women and young person employment, and communicate new regulations to employers.
Key Entities Referenced
Andaman and Nicobar Islands Shops and Establishments Regulation, 2004: The original regulation being amended by this document.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands Shops and Establishments (Amendment) Regulation, 2025: A regulation amending the 2004 regulation concerning shops and establishments in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Ministry of Law and Justice: The government ministry responsible for the legislative department and the publication of this regulation.
Constitution: Article 240 provides the powers exercised to promulgate this regulation.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands: The Union Territory where this regulation applies.
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MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE
(Legislative Department)
New Delhi, the 19th November, 2025/Kartika 28, 1947 (Saka)
THE ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS SHOPS AND
ESTABLISHMENTS (AMENDMENT) REGULATION, 2025
No. 10 of 2025
Promulgated by the President in the Seventy-sixth Yearof the Republic of India.
ARegulationtoamendtheAndamanandNicobarIslandsShopsandEstablishments
Regulation, 2004.
In exercise of the powers conferred by article 240 of the Constitution, the
Presidentis pleased to promulgate the following Regulation made by her:—
1. (1)ThisRegulationmaybecalledtheAndamanandNicobarIslandsShops Short title,
and Establishments (Amendment) Regulation,2025. extent and
commencement.
(2) It extends to the whole of the Union territory of Andaman and Nicobar
Islands.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Administrator may, by
notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.2 THE GAZETTE OF IND2I A EXTRAORDINARY [Part II—
Insertion of new 2. In the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Shops and Establishments
section 1A.
Regulation, 2004 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Regulation), after Reg.1 of 2004.
section 1, the following section shall be inserted, namely:––
Application. “1A. This Regulation applies to all establishments in which twenty or
more persons are employed or were employed on any day of the preceding
twelve months.”.
Amendment of 3.Insection3of theprincipal Regulation,insub-section(1),inclause(d),for
section 3. the words “three persons”, the words “twenty persons”shall be substituted.
Amendment of 4.In section 4 of the principal Regulation,—
section 4.
(a) for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be substituted,
namely:—
“(2) The employer of an establishment shall, within the period
specified in sub-section (6), apply online to the Registering Officer for
registration of the establishment in the prescribed form.”;
(b) for sub-section (4), the following sub-section shall be substituted,
namely:—
“(4) On receipt of the application under sub-section (2) and on
being satisfied about the correctness of the particulars contained therein,
the Registering Officer shall register the establishment and upon
registration, the employer shall generate the registration certificate from
the web portal of the Labour Department on payment of such fees
electronically, not exceeding the amount specified in column (3) of the
Schedule, which the Administrator may, from time to time, by order,
determine.”;
(c)sub-section (7) shall be omitted.
Amendment of 5.In section 7 of the principal Regulation, in sub-section (1),—
section 7.
(a) for the words “nine hours”, the words “ten hours” shall be
substituted;
(b) in the first proviso, for the words “ten hours”, the words “twelve
hours” shall be substituted;
(c) in the second proviso, for the words “fifty hours”, the words “one
hundred and forty-four hours” shall be substituted.
Amendment of 6. In section 8 of the principal Regulation, in sub-section (1), for the words
section 8. “nine hours”,the words “ten hours”shall be substituted.
Amendment of 7.In section 9 of the principal Regulation,—
section 9.
(a)in clause (a), for the words “five hours”, the words “six hours, unless
he has had an interval for rest of at least half an hour”shall be substituted;
(b) in clause (b), for the word “before”, the word “unless” shall be
substituted.
Substitution of
8. For section 21 of the principal Regulation, the following section shall be
section 21. substituted, namely:—
“21. No woman or young person shall be required or permitted to work
Prohibition of
employment of whether as an employee or otherwise in any establishment between the hours
women or young of 7 P.M. and 6 A.M.:
persons in
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Provided that women workers may, with their consent, be allowed to
work even between the hours of 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:
Provided further that where the Administrator considers that the
employment of women in any particular hazardous or dangerous processes in
an establishment is dangerous for their health and safety due to the operation
carried out therein, the Administrator may require the employer to provide
adequate safeguards as may be prescribed, prior to the employment of women
for such operation.”.
9. In section 34 of the principal Regulation, in sub-section (2), clauses (d) Amendment of
and (e) shall be omitted. section 34.
10.For the Schedule to the principal Regulation, the following Schedule shall Substitution of
be substituted, namely:— new Schedule
for Schedule.
“THE SCHEDULE
[Seesection 4(4)]
FEES FOR REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE
Serial No. Category of establishment Fees for registration
certificate in rupees
(1) (2) (3)
1. Establishment having Rs. 1,000.
twenty or more but less than
thirty employees
2. Establishment having Rs. 1,500.
thirty or more employees but
less than fifty employees
3. Establishment having Rs. 2,000.”.
fifty or more employees
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DROUPADI MURMU,
President.
————
President.
DR. RAJIV MANI,
Secretary to the Govt. of India.
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