Shops to close on one working-day at one o'clock.

B.(1.) All shops in a city, borough, or town district, except those wherein is carried on exclusively one or more of the businesses of a chemist, fishmonger, a fruiterer, a confectioner, a coffee-house keeper, an eating-house keeper, or the keeper of a bookstall on a railway-platform, shall be closed in each week on the afternoon of one working-day at the hour of one of the clock.

(2.) Whenever a public holiday or half-holiday occurs in any week, it shall be a sufficient compliance with these Acts if a shopkeeper closes his shop on such holiday or half-holiday instead of on the closing-day under these Acts.