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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

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Draft Bills.

No. S. 98. The following Bills are published for general information ***

Short title.

Interpreta- tion.

cf. 2 Geo. 5, c. 3, s. 19,

and 18 and 19 Geo. 5,

c. 33, ss. 2 and 3.

Closing hours.

cf. 2 Geo. 5,

c. 3, s. 4

(1).

Provisions

as to trading elsewhere than in shops.

ef. 2 Geo. 5, c. 3, s. 9.

Power to suspend operation of Ordinance on special occasions.

cf. 18 and 19 Geo. 5, c. 33, s. 7.

Offences.

A BILL

INTITULED

[No. 5-27.2.40.-1.]

An Ordinance to regulate the closing hours of retail shops.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Shops (Hours of Closing) Ordinance, 1940.

2. In this Ordinance--

"shop" includes any premises where any retail trade or business is carried on, but does not include clubs, hotels, public houses, restaurants, eating houses, tea-rooms or premises open for the sale only of medicines, acrated waters, sweets, chocolates or other sugar confectionery or ice cream, tobacco or smokers requisites;

retail trade or business

includes the business of a barber or hairdresser, but does not include the sale of petrol or newspapers or the sale or distribution of milk, or the sale of programmes or refreshments at theatres and places of

amusements.

3. Every shop shall, save as otherwise provided in this. Ordinance, be closed for the serving of customers not later than eight o'clock in the evening on any day of the week.

4. It shall not be lawful to carry on in any place not being a shop retail trade or business at any time when it would be unlawful to keep a shop open for the purposes of such retail trade or business, and, if any person carries on any trade or business in contravention of this section, this Ordinance shall apply as if he were the occupier of a shop and the shop were being kept open in contravention of this Ordinance.

5. The Governor may by order, signified by notification in the Gazette under the hand of the Colonial Secretary, suspend the operation of the provisions of this Ordinance in connexion with the Chinese New Year or any other special

occasion.

6.--(1) In the case of any contravention of, or failure ef. 2 Geo. 5, to comply with, the provisions of this Ordinance, the occupier c. 3, s. 1 (4). of the shop shall be guilty of an offence and liable on sum- mary conviction to a fine not exceeding (a) in the case of a

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