Punjab Shops and Establishments Ordinance, 1969
Punjab Shops and Establishments Ordinance, 1969 is applicable on commercial establishments, industrial establishments and factories. The rule made under the Ordinance makes every employer to maintain certain records and registers. The 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, inter alia, includes a clerical department of a factory or of any industrial or commercial undertaking but does not include a factory etc. An 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 view to its use, sale, transport, delivery, or disposal is carried on or where any such services is rendered to a customer and include such other class or classes of establishment as Government may by notification in the official Gazette declare to be an establishment for the purpose of this Ordinance but does not include a factory.
The Punjab Shops and Establishment Security Ordinance, 1999 was enacted to provide for the security of shops and establishments. The Government may, by order, provide for the regulation of and enforcement of measures for the security of the property and persons connected with an Establishment. It extends to whole of Pakistan and to all citizens of Pakistan.
