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By clause 1, Sunday employment is made generally unlawful, both
for a person who is himself carrying on an occupation and for persons
employed by him. Clause 2 deals with the Sunday closing of shops.
Clause 3 enables certain occupations of necessity or mercy (specified in
the First Schedule) to be carried on upon a Sunday. By clause 4 a local
authority is given power, with respect to such occupations only as are
specified in the Second Schedule, to make orders permitting them on
Sunday, on the grounds of necessity or mercy, and to grant exemptions
to Jews who observe Saturday as the weekly rest-day. Under clause 5,
the Home Secretary may supervise the powers of the local authority as
to the making of orders, and may add occupations to, or withdraw them
from, the Second Schedule. By clause 6 it is provided that in cases of
employment on Sunday, with certain necessary exceptions, an equivalent
period of rest shall be given within the week, and that no person shall
be employed on more than 26 Sundays in the year. The remaining
clauses contain the necessary machinery for carrying the Act into effect.
The Shops Bill.
A Bill to amend the Shops Act, 1912; the expression "shop" to
include any premises where any retail or wholesale business is carried
on, and any premises, warehouses, or offices (other than factories, workshops
or laundries, or premises connected with mining or railway undertakings)
where persons are employed for hire; the Bill defines "hours
of employment and meal times" and "employment," and provides
for a " universal half-holiday."
TABLE A.
Table giving number of, and inspections, etc., of Bakehouses, Laundries,
Workshops,. Workplaces, Places where food is prepared, Milk
premises, Cowsheds, Slaughter-houses, Offensive Businesses, Ice Cream
premises, Registered Houses Let in Lodgings, and Homeworkers' premises.