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General Closing Hours
The following contraventions were observed:-
Section 2 The sale after 8 p.m. of articles
not exempted by the 2nd Schedule 6
Section 12 Trading after closing hours
elsewhere than in shops 1
Warning letters were sent to four shopkeepers for offences
under Section 2, Legal proceedings were instituted against two
offenders under that section and against the offender under Section
12,
Sunday Trading
The following contraventions were observed:Section
22(1) Compensatory holidays not being allowed
for Sunday employment 10
Section 22(3) Record of Sunday employment not kept 18
Section 47 Sale of goods not exempted by the 5th
Schedule 21
Section 50 Sunday trade notices not displayed or
in possession of the occupier 118
Informal notices were sent to the occupiers of shops with
regard to holidays for Sunday employment and for not keeping a
record. Re inspections were made to ensure that the requirements
of this part of the Act were being carried out. For failing to
keep a record one shopkeeper was prosecuted and one warning letter
was sent. 13 Form VII (Record of Sunday employment) were sold.
Warning letters were sent to 15 shopkeepers for illegal
Sunday trading, and in the remaining six cases legal proceedings
were instituted. 77 notices were sold to occupiers under Section
50, Informal notices were sent to all requiring them to exhibit
these notices on Sunday, It was found necessary to prosecute 4
shopkeepers for failing to do so.
Section 53: Jewish Traders
During the year the names of two traders were removed from the
register and one was added; the total on the register now being five.