The Short Title of this Act is “The Shops and Offices Act Amendment Act, 1905”; and it shall form part of and be read together with “The Shops and Offices Act, 1904” (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Act”).

2 Repeal.

Section three of the principal Act is hereby repealed.

3 Limit of employment of shop-assistants.

(1.)

Subject to the provisions of the principal Act and to any award of the Arbitration Court, a shop-assistant shall not be employed—

(a.)

In or about any shop in which any one or more of the trades or businesses mentioned in the Schedule hereto are exclusively carried on, after the hour set opposite to such trade or business in the said Schedule:

Provided that no female assistant shall be employed in or about any such shop (other than a refreshment-room) after nine o’clock in the evening, except on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve; or

(b.)

In or about any other shop if situate within a combined district or a borough not forming part of a combined district and having a population of five thousand or upwards, after one o’clock in the afternoon of the statutory closing-day, or nine o’clock in the evening on one working-day in each week, or six o’clock in the evening on any other working-day; or

(c.)

In or about any other shop if situate within a borough not included in paragraph (b) hereof, after one o’clock in the afternoon of the statutory closing-day, or nine o’clock in the evening of one working-day in each week, or seven o’clock in the evening on any other working-day; or

(d.)

In or about any shop not included in any of the foregoing paragraphs, after one o’clock in the afternoon of the statutory closing-day, or such hours on other working-days as may be fixed by the occupiers for the closing of such shops.

(2.)

Notwithstanding anything in the principal Act or in this section, a chemist may keep his shop open and employ his assistants (but only for the supply of medicines and surgical appliances) between the hours of seven and nine o’clock in the evening on the statutory closing-day.

(3.)

The wife of the occupier of any shop and the members of his family shall not be deemed to be shop-assistants within the meaning of this section:

Provided that the provisions of the principal Act relating to the weekly half-holiday and to the number of hours that shop-assistants may be employed in any week shall apply to the members of the occupier’s family.

(4.)

Where a person who carries on the business of a hairdresser lets any chair or part of his shop to any other person, such last-mentioned person shall, for all the purposes of the principal Act, be deemed to be a shop-assistant, and such first-mentioned person an employer.

(5.)

If any shop-assistant is employed at any work in connection with the business of any shop later than half an hour after the time prescribed by this section, the employer commits an offence in respect of each shop-assistant so employed.

(6.)

The definitions contained in paragraph (a) of section fifteen of the principal Act shall extend and apply to this section, and in addition thereto it is hereby declared that for the purposes of this section a “dairy-produce seller” means a person who sells milk, cream, eggs, or butter.

4 Hour of commencement of employment.

No shop-assistant shall be employed in or about the business of any shop before the hour of four o’clock in the morning in the case of bakers, butchers, or milkmen, or seven o’clock in the morning in any other case.

5 Section 21 of principal Act amended.

(1.)

Subsection one of section twenty-one of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing the words “(not being one of the districts mentioned in section three hereof).”

(2.)

Subsection two of the same section is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the words “and such requisition shall, with respect to the trade or trades mentioned therein, supersede any requisition applying to all shops in the district.”

6 Section 23 of principal Act amended.

Section twenty-three of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing the words “live-stock,” and by inserting after the word “auctioneers” the words “banks, Harbour Boards, insurance companies, wholesale warehousemen, wool-brokers, or wool-buyers.”

7 Late closing on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.

Nothing in the principal Act or this Act shall render it unlawful for the occupier of any shop to employ his assistants till eleven o’clock at night on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve; or when Christmas Day and New Year’s Day fall on Monday, then till eleven o’clock at night on the Saturday preceding those days.

8 Special provisions as to Summer and New Brighton.

Notwithstanding anything in the principal Act, it is hereby declared that the Boroughs of Sumner and New Brighton shall not form part of the combined district of Christchurch, but shall each be deemed to be a separate district.

9 Special provisions as to chemists’ assistants.

Notwithstanding anything in the principal Act or this Act, it shall not be unlawful for any chemist’s assistant who resides on the premises of the shop to supply at any time medicine or surgical appliances that are urgently required.

Schedule

	Hour on Statutory Half holiday.	Hour on One Working-day in each Week.	Hour on all other Working-days.
Bakers	10.30 p.m.	11 p.m.	10.30 p.m.
Butchers	1 p.m.	10 p.m.	6 p.m.
Chemists	1 p.m.	9 p.m.	8 p.m.
Confectioners	10.30 p.m.	11 p.m.	10.30 p.m.
Dairy-produce sellers	1 p.m.	10 p.m.	6 p.m.
Fishmongers	10.30 p.m.	11 p.m.	10.30 p.m.
Florists	1 p.m.	10 p.m.	8 p.m.
Fruiterers	10.30 p.m.	11 p.m.	10.30 p.m.
Hairdressers	1 p.m.	10.30 pm.	8 p.m.
Newsagents	1 p.m.	10 p.m.	8 p.m.
Pork-butchers	1 p.m.	11 p.m.	10.30 p.m.
Refreshment-room keepers	11.45 p.m.	11.45 p.m.	11.45 p.m.
Tobacconists	1 p.m.	10.30 p.m.	8 p.m.

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