To amend the law relating to the closing of shops; and for purposes connected therewith. Sir William Bull, Sir A. Shirley Benn, Sir Frank Meyer, Sir John Ganzoni, Sir Leolin Forestier-Walker, Mr. Macquisten, Colonel Lambert Ward, Mrs. Philipson, Major Kindersley, Brigadier-General Warner, and Brigadier-General Charteris. Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 10 February 1928. To be purchased directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses: 120, George Street, Edinburgh; York Street, Manchester; 1, St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff; 15, Donegall Square West, Belfast or through any Bookseller. [AS AMENDED BY STANDING COMMITTEE A.] ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES. Clause. 1. Closing hours. 2. Special provisions as to confectionery. 3. Special provisions as to tobacco and smokers' requisites. 4. Saving as to closing orders. 5. Power to grant exemption in respect of exhibitions. 6. Special provisions as to holiday resorts. 7. Power to suspend operation of Act and closing orders on special occasions. 8. Offences. 9. Consequential and minor amendments of 2 Geo. 5. c. 3. 10. Short title, citation, construction, extent and repeal. SCHEDULES. A BILL [AS AMENDED BY STANDING COMMITTEE A] ΤΟ Amend the law relating to the closing of shops; BE E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, 5 as follows: A.D. 1928. 1.-(1) Every shop shall, save as otherwise provided Closing by this Act, be closed for the serving of customers not hours. later than nine o'clock in the evening on one day in the week (in this Act referred to as "the late day "), and 10 not later than eight o'clock in the evening on any other day in the week, and those hours are in this Act referred to as the "general closing hours." (2) The late day shall be Saturday unless the local authority by order fix some other day as the late day, 15 and any such order may fix the same day for all shops, or may fix 20 (a) different days for different classes of shops; or or (c) different days for different periods of the year: Provided that where the local authority have under the Shops Act, 1912 (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act), fixed any day as the weekly half-holiday for any class of shop, or for any part of their district, or |