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National Insurance Act.
Administration of sanatorium benefit, Section 16 (see page 37).
Enquiries into causes of excessive sickness, etc., Section 63, provision of
sanatoria, etc., Section 64 (3ee page 38).
Shops Act, 1911.*
An Act to amend and extend the Shops Regulation Acts, 1892 to 1904.
Among the Sections are Sections relating to hours of employment
and meal times, closing of shops on weekly half-holiday, provisions as to
trading elsewhere than in shops, and provisions as respects shops where
more than one business is carried on.
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1911.
Power to Metropolitan Borough Councils to Repair
Footways in Streets not Repairable by them.
14. The provisions of Section 3 of the Metropolis Management
Amendment Act, 1890, shall extend and apply to the footway or footways
of any such carriage road as is referred to in that section, and it shall be
lawful for any Metropolitan Borough Council to execute any necessary
works or repair upon any such footway or footways or any part thereof,
and to pay, apportion and recover the expenses of and incident to such
repair in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as are
provided by the said section with reference to works of repair of a carriage
road and the expenses of and incident to such repair.
Orders in Council Making Regulations under Section 5
of the Poisons and Pharmacy Act, 1908 (see page 170).
*Shops Act, 1912 (March 29th, 1912). Consolidates Shops Regulation Acts, 1892
to 1911, and comes into operation on the first day of May, 1912. Shops Regulation
Acts, 1892 to 1911, are repealed.
The Act consolidates the five earlier Acts relating to shop hours and employment
in shops, extending their application and enforcing new regulations. Its main
provisions impose new statutory requirements as to closing of shops and employment of
shop assistants, and it constitutes the charter of shop assistants for a weekly half holiday
and definite hours for meals.