No. 304/1940:

SHOPS (HOURS OF TRADING) ACT, 1938 (PART II) (EXEMPTED BUSINESSES) ORDER, 1940.

SHOPS (HOURS OF TRADING) ACT, 1938 (PART II) (EXEMPTED BUSINESSES) ORDER, 1940.

WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (3) of section 16 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 II 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 16 of 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 II) (Exempted Businesses) Order, 1940.

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

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

SCHEDULE.

BUSINESSES DECLARED BY THIS ORDER TO BE EXEMPTED BUSINESSES FOR THE PURPOSES OF PART II OF THE SHOPS (HOURS OF TRADING) ACT, 1938 .

1. 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 II of the Shops (Hours of Trading) Act, 1938 ) is carried on in the premises in which the principal business is carried on.

2. The business of selling rat, mice or rabbit poisons or other verminicides, or fly papers, insect preventives, weed killers, or slug killers.

3. The business of selling sprayers for use with insecticides.

4. The business of selling animal marking fluids or other animal markers.

5. The business of selling electric pocket lamps or accessories therefor.

6. The business of selling hot water bottles or vacuum flasks, or feeding bottles or teats, valves or brushes for use in connection with feeding bottles, or soothers, teething rings, baby food mixers or baby food warmers (including solid chemical fuel).

7. The business of selling razor strops or razor sharpeners.

8. The business of selling dyes in bottles.

9. The business of receiving photographic apparatus for repair or photographic goods for processing.

10. The business of returning photographic apparatus after repair or of selling processed photographic goods.

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

R. C. FERGUSON,

Secretary,

Department of Industry and Commerce.