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(f) medicine or medical or surgical appliances, so long as A.D. 1928.
the shop is kept open only for such time as is
necessary for serving the customer;

(g) newspapers, periodicals and books from the book-
stalls of such terminal and main line stations as
may be approved by the Secretary of State;

(h) aircraft, motor, or cycle, supplies or accessories for
immediate use, so long as the shop is kept open
only for such time as is necessary for serving the
customer;

(i) victuals, stores or other necessaries required by any
naval military or air force authority for His Majesty's
forces or required for any ship on her arrival at or
immediately before her departure from a port, so
long as the shop is kept open only for such time
as is necessary for serving the customer.

2. The transaction after the closing hour of any post office business.

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SECOND SCHEDULE.

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CONSEQUENTIAL AND MINOR AMENDMENTS OF

Enactments amended.

THE SHOPS ACT, 1912.

Amendment.

Section 9 - For the words "to such exemptions and conditions (if any) as may be contained in closing orders" there shall be substituted the words "in so far as "the prohibition is affected by any closing order, "to such exemptions and conditions, if any, as

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may be contained in the order."

30 Section 10 The following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (1):—

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"(1A) Where several trades and businesses are carried on in the same shop and any of "those trades or businesses consist only of "transactions of such a nature that if they were the only transactions carried on in the

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A.D. 1928. Enactments

amended.

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Amendment.

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shop the provisions of this Act relating to general closing hours would not apply to the shop, the shop may be kept open after the 5 general closing hour for the purposes of "those transactions alone, subject, however, "to such conditions as may be prescribed "; and in subsection (3) for the word "under" there shall be substituted the words "or any 10 "proportion or number of occupiers or of shops "for the purposes of "

Section 11 The following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (1) :—

(1A) Any order made under this section may 15 be made so as to apply to the whole or to any part of the area of the local authority, and to all shops, or to shops of any class, within that area or part.

BILL

[AS AMENDED BY STANDING
COMMITTEE A]

To amend the law relating to the
closing of shops; and for purposes
connected therewith.

Presented by Sir Park Goff,
supported by

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, 26 April 1928.

To be purchased directly from

H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses:
Adastral House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2;

120, George Street, Edinburgh; York Street, Manchester;
1, St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff; 15, Donegall Square West, Belfast:
or through any Bookseller.

LORDS AMENDMENTS

TO THE

SHOPS (HOURS OF CLOSING) BILL.

[NOTE. The page and line refer to Bill (93) as first printed by the Lords.]

Page 4.

Line 14, leave out from ("order") to (" and ") in line 16.

Line 20, at end, insert new subsections (3) and (4).

("(3) If, while orders made under this section are in force, any shop assistant affected by any such order is, in any year, employed in or about the business of a shop for extra hours, he shall, subject to the provisions of the Second Schedule to this Act, be entitled to corresponding holidays, calculated in accordance with the provisions of that Schedule, with full wages; and if at the date of the termination of his employment or at the end of the year, whichever first occurs, default has been made in granting to him any holiday or wages to which he is entitled under this subsection, the shop assistant may recover as a debt due from the employer for every day's holiday in respect of which such default has been made a sum equal to one-sixth of the highest weekly rate of wages paid to him in respect of his employment in or about the business of the shop during the year or the part thereof during which he has been employed therein.

"(4) For the purposes of this Act—

"Extra hours' means, in relation to any shop assistant, hours in excess of the customary working day, being hours after the general