Saturday Half Holiday Act 1910 (NSW)

Act No. 12, 1910.

satordaŷhalf An Act to i:)roYi(le for a Saturday half-holiday

— ’	every Saturday in shops, and to amend the law with regard to the early closing of shops ; and for piiri)oses consc(incnt thereon or incidental thereto. [21th L̂n<jnsf, 1910.]
E it enacted by the King’s jMost Excellent Majesty, by and with

Assembly of New South "Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the B ’ the advice and consent of tlie Legislative Council and Legislative

authority of the same, as follows :—

Short title and

commencement. 1 . This Act may be cited as the “ Saturday Half Holiday Act,

1910,” and shall commence and come into force on a date to be fixed

by proclamation in the Gazette.

Incorporation with . _ 2 . This Act shall be construed with the Early Closing Act,

Early cioBiug Acts,

p g g g (hereinafter referred to as the Principal Act), the Early Closing

(Amendment) Act, 1900, and the Early Closing (Hairdressers’ Shops)

Act, 1906.

Act No. 12. 1910.

Saturday Half Holiday.

3 . NotwitlLstandiu" anything contained in the said Acts, the Closing times of

closing time for all sliops (otlicr than those of the classes or kinds

mentioned or spi'citied in ScIkhIuIc One to the Principal Act, or the Newcastle, ami

Schedule to this Act), situated within the metropolitan shopping district Nortiuimberiaini and within the Newcastle shopping district, and all other shopping si“>pp'''g I'isuiets.

districts comprised in the county ol' Northumberland, shall in every

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week be one o’clock in the arternoon of Saturday and six o’clock in '

the afternoon of AVednesday, and ten o’clock in the evening of

Priday.

All such shops shall close on those days not later than the hours above mentioned :

Provided that nothing in the above provision shall affect the

operation of section eight of the Early Closing (Amendment) Act, 1900.

4 . If any shop to which this Act refers is not closed and kejit Pcmiit .

closed for the remainder of the day at and after the closing time fixed by this Act, or if in any such shop any goods arc offered for sale after the said time, the shopkeeper of the shop and any person acting or apparently acting in the management of the shop shall be guilty of an offence against the Principal Act, and may be proceeded against in accordance Avith the provisions of that A c t:

Provided that no such shopkeeper or person shall bo guilty of the said offence by reason that Avithin one half-hour after the said closing time goods have been olfered for sale or sold to a customer Avho at the said closing time Avas in the shop being seiwcd or AÂ aiting to be served.

5 . The provisions of this Act may, by proclamation of the Power to extend Act

GoA'crnor published in fhc Gazette, be extended to the classes or kinds

of shops to Avhich this Act refers situated Avithin any country shopping

district:

Provided that such ])roclamation shall not be made except on resolutions passed by both Houses of Parliament.

SCHEDULE.

Hairdressers’ shops.

fhUeliers’ shops.

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