S.I. No. 245/1947 -- Hardware, Drapery and Boot Shops (Hours of Trading on Week-Days) (Drogheda and Dundalk) Order, 1947.
No. 245/1947: HARDWARE, DRAPERY AND BOOT SHOPS (HOURS OF TRADING ON WEEK-DAYS) (DROGHEDA AND DUNDALK) ORDER, 1947. | ||
HARDWARE, DRAPERY AND BOOT SHOPS (HOURS OF TRADING ON WEEK-DAYS) (DROGHEDA AND DUNDALK) ORDER, 1947. | ||
I, SEÁN F. LEMASS, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 25 of the Shops (Hours of Trading) Act, 1938 (No. 3 of 1938), and after due compliance with subsection (1) of section 4 of the said Act, hereby order as follows:— | ||
1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Hardware, Drapery and Boot Shops (Hours of Trading on Week-days) (Drogheda and Dundalk) Order, 1947. | ||
(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of June, 1947. | ||
2. Each of the following shall be a trading area for the purposes of this Order : | ||
(a) the urban district of Drogheda, | ||
(b) the urban district of Dundalk. | ||
3. In this Order the expression " shop to which this Order applies " means any shop, situate in the trading area for the purposes of this Order, in which there is carried on one or more of the following businesses. | ||
(a) the business of selling hardware, | ||
(b) the business of selling drapery, | ||
(c) the business of selling footwear, | ||
whether any other business is or is not carried on in the shop. | ||
4. It shall not be lawful for the proprietor of a shop to which this Order applies to open or keep open the shop for the serving of customers— | ||
(a) on any of the three week-days (not being a Saturday) immediately preceding Christmas Day, before the hour of 9 a.m. or after the hour of 7 p.m., | ||
(b) on a Saturday which is one of the three days immediately preceding Christmas Day, before the hour of 9 a.m. or after the hour of 9 p.m., | ||
(c) on any other Saturday before the hour of 9 a.m. or after the hour of 8 p.m., | ||
(d) on any week-day (not being a Saturday or a day referred to in paragraph (a) of this Article), before the hour of 9 a.m. or after the hour of 6 p.m. | ||
GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 16th day of May, 1947. | ||
(Signed) SEÁN F. LEMASS, | ||
Minister for Industry and Commerce. | ||