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SHOPS ACT AND STREET TRADING
The department administers three local Orders under the Act:
The Edmonton Hairdressers and Barbers (Late Day) Order, 1947, made under the
Shops (Hours of Closing) Act, 1928; The Shops Act, 1912, Edmonton Weekly HalfHoliday
Order, Section 4(2) and (6) (Butchers); The Shops Act, 1912, Edmonton
Weekly Half-Holiday Order, Section 4(2); all the Orders stand amended by the
Shops Act, 1950.
There are approximately 1,300 shops and places other than shops in
the Borough which are liable to inspection.
The Shops Acts and Street Trading Inspector submits a monthly report
to the Public Health Committee, and the following is a short summary of the work
carried out during the year:
Visits to shops, licensed street traders, etc 1,200
Washing facilities, sink water heaters installed 10
Contraventions were in the main of a minor character, mostly concerned
with the exhibition of notices.
SHOPS ACT, 1950 - PART I, SECTION 1(2)
Edmonton Weekly Half-Holiday Order - Three letters of warning were
sent to shopkeepers for contravening this Order.
SHOPS ACT, 1950 - PART I
Hours of Closing - A letter of warning was sent to a shop-keeper in
this connection.
SHOPS ACT, 1950 - PART II, SECTION 17(1)
Condition of Employment - Two letters of warning were sent to the
occupiers of shops where assistants were found working during the occasion of
the weekly half-holiday.
SHOPS ACT, 1950 - PART IV - SUNDAY TRADING
Forty-one shops were visited in addition to supervisory operations
and observations. Five contraventions were discovered; a letter of warning
was sent in each case. Registers required to be kept under this Act were inspected
periodically.
YOUNG PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT) ACT, 1938
Cinemas and boot and shoe repairing are the only occupations where
young persons are being employed under the above Act. The registers kept at
these premises were periodically inspected.
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