No. 363/1947:

SHOPS (HOURS OF TRADING) ACT, 1938 (PART III) (EXEMPTED BUSINESS) (EXCLUSION) ORDER, 1947.

SHOPS (HOURS OF TRADING) ACT, 1938 (PART III) (EXEMPTED BUSINESS) (EXCLUSION) ORDER, 1947.

I, SEAN F. LEMASS, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsection (2) of section 22 of the Shops (Hours of Trading) Act, 1938 (No. 3 of 1938), hereby order as follows :

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Shops (Hours of Trading) Act, 1938 (Part III) (Exempted Business) (Exclusion) Order, 1947.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 3rd day of November, 1947.

2. Each of the following businesses shall cease to be an exempted business for the purposes of Part III of the Shops (Hours of Trading) Act, 1938 (No. 3 of 1938)—

(a) the business of selling newspapers, periodicals, books, magazines, or stationery ;

(b) the business of selling tobacco or smokers' requisites.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 25th day of October, 1947.

(Signed), SEAN F. LEMASS,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.