Shop Act Registration under Shop and Establishment online application now mandatory. Documents and Checklist

READ THIS BEFORE APPLYING FOR SHOP ACT LICENSE IN MAHARASHTRA

Shop Act Registration which is compulsory for Business setup in Maharashtra under the Shop and Establishment Act, 1948 has gone online now and is mandatory from 01.11.2015

The new registration for Shop Act can be done on http://lms.mahaonline.gov.in/Login/Login website. The website is user friendly. Click on 'English' option at Top Right corner for website to be displayed in English language.

Click on 'CREATE EMPLOYER USER PROFILE' to register new profile. The options will be to click on 'INDIVIDUAL OR FIRM/COMPANY/ORGANISATION'. Select accordingly.

Enter your mobile number. An OTP will be generated and sent on your mobile for verification.

Enter Full name in English. The website will generate details Marathi font automatically.

Select Gender: Male or Female or Transgender

Enter details of PAN, Aadhar whichever is available

Email ID of the Applicant. A verification link will be sent on Email which needs to be clicked for profile creation.

Password: Password should contain atleast one numbers from 0 to 9,atleast one small and capital alphabets, atleast one special character from @#$%' and the length of password should be minimum 7 to maximum 20. Example- Labour@123

Login again once successful email verification is done.

Click on 'Shop and Establishment Registration'

Select Division out of the following options:

Konkan / Nashik / Pune / Aurangabad / Nagpur

Kolhapur Sangli Solapur Satara are also part of Pune Division. 

Thereafter select Office Name i.e. jurisdiction

Details required to be filled are as below:

Name of the establishment

Name of the Building

Street Name

Landmark

Locality

State

District

Taluka

Village

Pincode

Ownership of Premises : Rental or Self-owned

Fax No.
(not compulsory)

Landline No. (not compulsory)

Select Sector:

Private Sector or Public Sector

Other Details:

Address of Office, storeroom, godown, warehouse or work place if any, other than the above address. Should be filled only when office,storeroom etc is not separately registered under the Act.

NAME OF THE EMPLOYER

RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS OF THE EMPLOYER IN SAME MANNER AS ABOVE. 

Resident Since Year.

Name of Manager, if any and his residential address (Not compulsory)

Category of establishment i.e. whether a shop, commercial establishment, residential hotel, restaurant eating house, theatre or other place of public amusement or entertainment

Date of commencement of business 

Whether applied for Renewal? Yes / No. If Yes, renewal year?

Name of the members of employer's family employed in the establishment

Total Number of employees Male Female Transgender

Category of Establishment Type:

Self Ownership (Proprietorship)

Partnership

Private Limited Company

Public

LLP

Trust

Coop Soc

Proceed after filing details as above. Save the Application No. and then proceed to Uploading of Documents.

Kindly upload scanned copy of documents.(File format - jpg/jpeg, png,pdf and Size jpg/jpeg, png should be minimum 75kb and maximum 100kb and Size of pdf should be less than 512kb.

Photograph: The size of the photograph and sign should fall between 5KB to 20KB.

Signature also needs to be scanned and uploaded of the Applicant.

Address proof of place of business (Submit any 2 of the following documents) 

Sale/Purchase Deed
Notarized Leave and License
Rent Receipt 

Property Tax Paid Receipt

Society Maintenance Receipt

Electricity Bill

Telephone Bill

Applicant ID Proof (Submit any 1 of the following documents)  

PAN Card

Aadhar Card

Driving License

Passport

Election / Voter ID

Compulsory Documents

Annexure A Self Declaration

Annexure B Self Declaration for self attestation

Annexure C Undertaking

Actual photo of the establishment such the interior is displayed and the sign board (in Marathi) is seen at the appropriate place of the establishment 

Other Verification

Copy of the license, registration which is mandatory under any other law from any authority before starting of the business, if any

THE SYSTEM IS STILL NEW THUS MANY USERS ARE FACING LOTS OF PROBLEM. APPLICATION NEEDS TO BE FILLED AND DOCUMENTS NEED TO BE UPLOADED COUPLE OF TIMES. I THUS SWITCHED TO INTERNET EXPLORER AND THE APPLICATION WAS ACCEPTED IMMEDIATELY.

CA Niraj Mahajan
Pune
nirajdmahajan@gmail.com