No. 305/1940:

SHOPS (HOURS OF TRADING) ACT, 1938 (PART III) (EXEMPTED BUSINESS) ORDER, 1940.

SHOPS (HOURS OF TRADING) ACT, 1938 (PART III) (EXEMPTED BUSINESS) ORDER, 1940.

WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (3) of section 22 of the Shops (Hours of Trading) Act, 1938 (No. 3 of 1938), that the Minister for Industry and Commerce may, whenever and so often as he thinks fit, by order under the said subsection declare that any business shall be an exempted business for the purposes of Part III of the said Act :

NOW, THEREFORE, the Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by subsection (3) of section 22 or the Shops (Hours of Trading) Act, 1938 (No. 3 of 1938), and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, hereby orders as follows :—

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Shops (Hours of Trading) Act, 1938 (Part III) (Exempted Business) Order, 1940.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 18th day of July, 1940.

2. The business specified in the Schedule hereto shall be an exempted business for the purposes of Part III of the Shops (Hours of Trading) Act, 1938 (No. 3 of 1938).

SCHEDULE.

Any business in respect of which the following conditions are complied with, that is to say :—

(a) that such business is the business (hereinafter referred to as the principal business) ordinarily carried on by a blacksmith (including the repairing or altering of agricultural implements and the selling of implements made on the premises in which the said last-mentioned business is carried on), and

(b) that no business (other than the principal business or a business which is a scheduled business for the purposes of Part III of the Shops (Hours of Trading) Act, 1938 ) is carried on in the premises in which the principal business is carried on.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for Industry and Commerce this 18th day of July, 1940.

R. C. FERGUSON,

Secretary,

Department of Industry and Commerce.