Factories and Shops Act Amendment Act 1948 (WA)

No. 15.] Factories and Shops. [1948.

FACTORIES AND SHOPS.

12° GE°. VI., No. XV.

No. 15 of 1948.

AN ACT to amend the Factories and Shops Act, 1920-

1947.

[Assented to 18th November, 1948.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legis-

lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows

.hurt title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Factories and Shops Act Amendment Act, 1948, and shall be read as one with

the Factories and Shops Act, 1920-1947 (Act No. 44 of 1920 as reprinted pursuant to the Amendments Incor- poration Act, 1938, with amendments up to and including Act No. 54 of 1937 in Volume 1 of the Reprinted Acts of the Parliament of Western Australia and further amended by Acts Nos. 26 of 1939, 47 of 1946, 60 of 1946, and 41 of 1947), hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

Citation of	2.	The principal Act as amended by this Act may be
principal A. t

as amended	cited as the Factories and Shops Act, 1920-1948.
by this Act.

Amendment of 3.

Sections twenty-six and one hundred and thirty-

five of the principal Act are amended by adding after

the last word in each the following:—

as. 26 and 125

Provided that this section shall not apply to

(1) any person of the Asiatic race who is a natural born British subject and whose domicile is in the State on the day of the commencement of the Factories and Shops Act Amendment Act, 1948, nor

(2) to any descendant of any person referred

to in the next preceding paragraph if the

domicile of the descendant is in the State.