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are "Bank Holidays" within the meaning of the Act) fall on a
Friday and a Saturday respectively.
It is provided by Section 4 (5) that if a shop is closed
throughout the whole of a Bank Holiday, and the Bank Holiday
does not fall on the day fixed for the weekly half holiday, the
shopkeeper may keep open either on the half holiday immediately
preceding or on the half holiday immediately succeeding
the Bank Holiday.
1. Where Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday is the
day fixed for the weekly half holiday:—
(a) The shopkeeper will, if he closes the whole of
Christmas Day or Boxing Day, be entitled to keep open
either on the half holiday in Christmas week or on the half
holiday in the week following; and, if he closes the whole of
both days, to keep open on the half holidays in both these
weeks.
(b) If, however, he desires to keep open on the Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday, as the case may be, in
the week preceding Christmas week, as well as in Christmas
week, he must change the day of the weekly half holiday in
Christmas week to Saturday in the prescribed manner (that
is, by putting up a notice in his shop that in Christmas week
the half holiday will be on Saturday). The half holiday in
(he week preceding Christmas week would then become the
half holiday immediately preceding Christmas Day, and the
shopkeeper, if he closed the whole of Christmas Day, would
not be required to close on that half holiday; but as Saturday
the 26th would become the day of the half holiday for
Christmas week, he will not be able by virtue of closing the