890

Hours of

employment

outside

opening

hours.

Ch.31, No.14
-1940, s. 6,

Shops carry-

ing on more

trades than

one.

Ch.31. No.14
-1940, 5.7

Places other

than shops.

Ch.31. No.14
-1940, 8.8.

Ch. 31. No. 14.] Shop (Hours of Opening and Emplovment).

(6) four hours on one specified day to be designated
as an early closing day ;

(c) eight hours on other week days to be designated
as ordinary closing days.

(3) The opening hours fixed by any Shop Order may
from time to time be shortened (but not further than as
provided in subsection (2) hereof) or extended for any
specific day or period.

8. A Shop Order may prohibit or restrict the employment
inor about any shop outside opening hours of any person
who has been employed in or about any shop during
opening hours, and may impose conditions on such employ-
ment.

9. Where more trades or businesses than one are carried
on in the same shop, and any of those trades or businesses
is of such a nature that, if it was the only trade or business
carried on in the shop the Shop Order would not apply to
the shop, such shop may be open outside the opening hours
for the purposes of that trade or business alone, but on such
terms and under such conditions as may be specified in the
Shop Order

10. (1) Hf any person shall sell or expose or offer for sale
in any place other than a shop any goods at any time or
on any day during which the sale of goods of a like des-
eription is prohibited by any Shop Order, he shall be liable,
on summary conviction, to a fine of two hundred and forty
dollars: Provided that nothing in this section shall be
deemed to prohibit a private sale by a person not engaged in
the sale of goods as a trade or business.

(2) Any goods exposed for sale in contravention of
subsection (1) of this section shall be forfeited and may be
seized by any constable and dealt with in like manner as
uncustomed goods seized by an officer’ of Customs in
accordance with the provisions of the customs laws as
defined in section 2 of the Customs Ordinance.