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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 74

Mode in which day for closing shops to be fixed

Mode in which day for closing shops to be fixed.

I. (1.) The day on which shops are to be closed in accordance with these Acts shall be appointed by the local authority by special resolution in the month of January in every year, and the day so appointed shall continue to be the day for closing until some other day shall have been appointed.

(2.) Any two or more boroughs or town districts, any part of any one of which is situate within a mile of any part of another, shall be deemed to constitute a district for the purposes of these Acts; and in all boroughs and town districts comprised in any such district the day appointed for the closing of shops shall be the same, and such day shall be appointed in manner following :—
(a.)A conference of delegates appointed by all the local authorities comprised in any such district shall be held in the month of January in every year forth purpose of deciding on which day of the week shops shall be closed in such district, in accordance with the provisions of these Acts.
(b.)Each local authority comprised in any such district (not being a city) shall appoint one delegate to each such conference, and any borough being a city in such page 7 district shall appoint a number being one more than the number of delegates appointed by all the other local authorities in such district.
(c.)All delegates shall be members of the local authority, and in the case of a city the Mayor shall be ex officio one of the delegates for such city. The number of delegates which any such city is entitled to appoint shall constitute a quorum of the conference.
(d.)Such conference shall decide which day of the week shall be the day on which all shops in the district shall be closed as provided by these Acts; and the Chairman shall forthwith notify in writing to the Minister of Labour which day has been so decided upon, and the Minister shall by notice in the Gazette appoint that day to be the day for closing accordingly; and the day so appointed shall continue to be the day for closing until the Minister shall have appointed some other day in accordance with the decision of another conference; and the production of the Gazette notice shall be conclusive proof of the day named therein being the day appointed for closing shops in the district.