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EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES
These Agencies, which include "au-pair" agencies are licenced
annually and inspection of the records kept by these firms is carried out
to ensure that the provisions of the Act are complied. In most cases the
premises concerned are also subject to the provisions of the Offices, Shops
and Railway Premises Act, 1963.
There are 91 agencies registered and regularly inspected in the Borough.
SHOPS ACTS, 1960 - 65
The Shops Acts regulate the closing hours of shops and the working
hours of shop assistants. Failure to observe "closing hours" has given little
cause for complaint during the year. 520 inspections were made under the
Shops Acts; infringements remedied were as follows:—
Hours of Closing 1
Notices to be exhibited or amended 213
Meal Intervals not granted to Staff 1
Opening Hours of Launderettes 4
The following complaints were received during the year and investigated.
1. Selling motor cars on seven days per week and after
the general closing hours. 2
2. Selling goods from a "general" shop on a Sunday not
permitted by the Fifth Schedule of the Shops Act,
1950. 1
3. Insufficient meal intervals for a shop assistant in a
restaurant. 1
4. Excessive hours of work of a young person in a
hairdresser's establishment. 1
5. Loss of Assistants' Weekly Half Holiday 3
6. Failure to exhibit statutory notices respecting
Assistants' Weekly Half Holiday and statutory
records of young persons employment not kept. 1
PROSECUTIONS UNDER SHOPS ACT, 1950
There were no prosecutions under the Act during the year.