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Each shop will require to be visited at least
once in each year for the following purposes:—
(i) Sufficiency of snnitary accommodation.
(ii) Sufficiency of washing facilities.
(iii) Sufficiency of lighting.
(iv) Sufficiency of ventilation.
(v) Sufficiency of heating.
(vi) Facilities for meals for shop assistants.
(vii) Provision of seats for females.
(viii) Exhibition of proper notices.
(ix) Inspection of records, particularly respecting young
persons.
(x) Personal interviews with shop assistants re hours of
work, meal intervals, half-holiday, overtime and
compensatory holidays.
Special visits become necessary to secure general
compliance with provisions relating to half-dav
closing, evening closing, Sunday closing, Bank
Holidays, employment of newspaper boys and girls
and employment of other young persons, control of
wholesale shops, street traders, places of amusement,
etc.
During this year several applications were
received for partial exemption orders (under the
Sunday Trading Act), but these were declined.
Additional watercloset accommodation was
secured in one premises, and the ventilation and
temperature was attended to in several shops as the
result of informal action.