An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the regulation of conditions of work and employment in shops, commercial establishments, residential hotels, restaurants, eating houses, theatres, other places of public amusement or entertainment and other establishments. WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law relating to the regulation of conditions of work and employment in shops, commercial establishments, residential hotels, restaurants, eating houses, theatres, other places of public amusement or entertainment and other establishments and for certain other purposes hereinafter specified. It is hereby enacted as follows:- CHAPTER I Preliminary 1. Short title extent and operation. This Act may be called the Bombay Shops and Establishments Act, 1948. [(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Maharashtra.] (3) It shall in the first instance come into force in the local areas specified in schedule I: ^Provided that, on the com