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CLOSING ORDERS RELATING TO SHOPS
The local authority has power, under certain conditions, to make local
Closing Orders for fixing the hours at which, either throughout the area
of the local authority or in any specified part thereof, all shops or shops
of any specified class are to be closed for the serving of customers. The
authority may also, by order, fix the day on which shops are to be closed
for the weekly half-holiday, or may, if satisfied that the majority of the
occupiers of shops of any particular class in any area are in favour of being
exempted from closing for the weekly half-holiday, either wholly or by
fixing as the closing hour instead of one o'clock some other hour not
later than two o'clock. Before the order is made the local authority must
be satisfied that a majority of the occupiers of such shops are in favour
of the exemption, or, in the case of a vote being taken, that at least one
half of the votes recorded by the occupiers of the shops within the area
of the class in question are in favour of the exemption.
The following closing orders are in force in the Borough:—
Hornsey Chemists Weekly Half-Holiday Order, dated 20th
January, 1913. Provides for the closing of chemists' shops on Thursday
at 1 p.m. in all wards except part of Stroud Green Ward lying west of
Oakfield Road and Denton Road.
Hornsey Dealers in Stationery and Stationers' Sundries
Order, dated 19th May, 1913. Exempts retail dealers in these goods in
the Crouch End, Central Hornsey, North Harringay, South Harringay
and Stroud Green Wards from the provisions of the Act relating to
the closing of shops for the weekly half-holiday.
Highgate Ward Dealers in Stationery and Stationers' Sundries
Order, dated 31st July, 1913. (Applies to Highgate Ward—similar
provisions to previous Order).
Hornsey Dealers in Books Order, dated 19th January, 1914.
Exempts all shops in the Borough in which the sale by retail of books
is carried on from closing for the weekly half-holiday.
Highgate Grocers, Provision Merchants and Oil and Italian
Warehousemen's Weekly Half-Holiday Order, dated 20th April,
1914. Provides for the closing of such shops in Highgate Ward on
Thursday at 1 p.m.
Hornsey Butchers' Weekly Half-Holiday and Closing Order,
dated 22nd March, 1920. Provides for the closing of all butchers'
shops (including pork butchers) in the Borough as follows:—
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Thursday (weekly half-holiday) at 1 p.m.
Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.
Hornsey Dealers in Motor-cars, Motor-cycles and Cycles
Order, dated 24th October, 1938. Exempts all such shops in the
Borough from closing for the weekly half-holiday.
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