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MSME

MSME Samadhaan for Unpaid Invoices: Check Supplier Eligibility and Prepare the Evidence First

An overdue invoice does not become an enforceable MSMED claim simply because the supplier downloads an Udyam certificate. The claimant must establish its eligible status, the transaction, the amount due and the appropriate forum. Registration timing, trading activity, acceptance disputes and limitation can matter as much as the invoice total.

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Environment & EnergyGujarat

Electricity Duty on Self-Generated Power in Gujarat: What a Business Must Check Before Claiming Exemption

Generating electricity for your own Gujarat business does not automatically remove electricity duty. A diesel generator, a rooftop solar installation and an off-site power project can create different questions about the source, the person generating electricity, the consumer and the legal exemption being claimed. The absence of a duty line on the distribution company's bill says little about power generated behind the consumer's meter.

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Healthcare LicensingKarnataka

A Pharmacist Leaves a Karnataka Medical Store: What Must the Licence Holder Update?

A pharmacist's resignation is an operating-compliance event, not only a payroll change. The Karnataka medical-store owner should establish the actual last working date, reassess the activities that depend on personal supervision, notify the drug-licensing authority and complete the appropriate registered-pharmacist change or cancellation process.

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Healthcare LicensingMaharashtra

Adding a Drug Warehouse in Maharashtra: Can the Existing Wholesale Licence Cover It?

A pharmaceutical distributor should not place sale stock in a new godown merely because invoices will continue to come from its licensed office. Drug-sale regulation covers stocking for sale as well as completing the invoice. Under the Drugs Rules, separate places where drugs are sold or stocked for sale require separate applications and licences, subject to the specific legal exceptions.

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Healthcare LicensingWest Bengal

Opening a Diagnostic Collection Centre in West Bengal: Which Clinical Establishment Licence Covers the Site?

A West Bengal sample-collection point should not open on the assumption that the parent laboratory's licence covers every address using its name. The collection site is a clinical-establishment question in its own right. Its operator, address, services and affiliation with the testing laboratory must be correctly reflected in the licensing position.

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Healthcare LicensingKerala

Kerala Clinical Establishment Registration: Does a Consultation Clinic, Dental Practice or Laboratory Need It?

Kerala has its own Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act, 2018. A healthcare premises should therefore assess the Kerala law, its amendments and notified standards, rather than apply a generic summary of the central Clinical Establishments Act, 2010. The State law covers a wide range of treatment and diagnostic establishments, including facilities without beds.

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Food Safety

Selling Food Under Your Own Brand: When Does FSSAI Treat You as a Relabeller?

A food brand does not escape FSSAI requirements because another business owns the factory. If you arrange for your food products to be manufactured or packed by a third-party manufacturer or processor, the relabeller classification is the starting point. The term is wider than physically removing one label and sticking on another.

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Food SafetyKarnataka

FSSAI for a Karnataka Cloud Kitchen: One Kitchen, Several Brands and Delivery Platforms

A delivery-only kitchen needs FSSAI registration or a licence even when it has no tables, customers never enter the building and all orders arrive through an app. For a Karnataka cloud kitchen, the useful starting point is the business operator and preparation address. A brand name on a delivery platform is only one part of that picture.

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Food Safety

FSSAI Head Office and Branch Licences: How to Map a Food Business Operating in Several States

A food business's head-office licence does not replace the permission required for every operating kitchen, warehouse or outlet. The head-office record establishes an additional organisational layer for a food-business operator working in two or more states or Union territories. Each premises must still be assessed for its actual activities and applicable registration or licence category.

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