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Hornsey 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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33
SHOPS ACTS.
The Shops Acts, 1912-1913, and the Shops (Hours of Closing)
Act, 1928, may be cited together as the Shops Acts, 1912 to 1928.
Six hundred and thirty-nine visits have been paid to shops
during the year and, apart from a number of minor infringements,
which were dealt with, the provisions of the Shops Acts,
1912-1928, have, generally speaking, been well observed.
Letters have been sent in eleven instances where contraventions
have occurred after verbal notices, and undertakings
obtained that recurrences will not take place.
Legal Proceedings were taken under Section 1 of the Shops
(Hours of Closing) Act, 1928, for being open for the service of
customers and selling tobacco after the prescribed hour. The
Magistrates fined the shopkeeper £2 0s. 0d.