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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 74

Special hours for closing on Saturday night

Special hours for closing on Saturday night.

M. Upon a requisition, signed by a three-fifths majority of the shopkeepers in any city or borough, desiring that all shops in the city or borough shall be closed on the evening of Saturday in each week at the hour of nine or ten of the clock, as expressed by the requisition, the Minister shall, by notice in the Gazette, intimate that from and after a day therein mentioned all the shops in the city or borough shall be closed in accordance with such requisition : Provided that no requisition will be gazetted by the Governor in Council until it has been certified to by the City or Borough Council that the signatures to such requisition represent a three-fifths majority of shopkeepers trading within the city or borough limits.