1. This petition raises an interesting and an important point of interpretation, under the Bombay Shops and Establishments Act, 1948. This Act has been made applicable to Vidarbha region by the Extension and Amendment Act 1960, applying the provision of this Act all over the State of Maharashtra.

2. The petitioner, Shri S. N. Kherdekar, is a Advocate of this Court, and also the elected Secretary of the High Court Bar Association at Nag-pur. The Association is a body registered under the Societies Registration Act. The petitioner has been practising for the last 27 years in the High Court and also enrolled under the Legal Practitioners Act and now under the new Advocates Act, 1961.

3. The petitioner has stated that he is practising at his own residence and does not maintain an establishment. He carries on profession by receiving briefs at his house. He has a clerk who looks after the Court work. The clerk is a registered clerk under the rules of the High Court. The petitioner is governed by the Legal Practitioners Act and the Advocates Act. The petitioner, it is claimed, is also an officer of the Court, and is not running any firm or business, or organising any commercial est