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This Act was repealed on a date we do not have by the Bihar Shops and Establishments (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 2025; it may still apply to matters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

7. Opening and closing hours of establishments.— 1(1) No establishment shall on any day be opened earlier than 2[8 A.M. and closed later than 2[10 P.M. : Provided that any customer who was being served or was waiting to be served at such closing hour in any establishment may be served in such establishment during the quarter of an hour immediately following such hour.] (2) The State Government may, by notification, after the opening or closing hours for different establishments or for different areas or for different periods of the year. (3) When they are conducted in an establishment two or more trades or business, any or which is of such a character that, if it was sole trade or business, therein conducted, the provisions of this section would not apply to that establishment shall, so far the conduct of that trade or business is concerned, be exempt from the operation of this section.