State Act

Bihar Shops & Establishments Act, 1953

This Act was repealed on a date we do not have by the Bihar Shops and Establishments (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 2025; it may still apply to matters that began before then.

3[12A. Other holidays.—Every employee in an establishment shall be allowed— (a) a holiday on full pay on the Independence Day, the Republic Day and Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday each year; and (b) such other holidays on full pay upto five days in a year, in connection with such festivals as the State Government may declare from time to time under this Act: Provided that an employee required to work on any such holiday shall be paid remuneration at double the rate of his normal wages calculated by the hour.]