Shops and Offices Amendment Act 1913
Shops and Offices Amendment Act 1913
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Shops and Offices Amendment Act 1913
Shops and Offices Amendment Act 1913
Public Act |
1913 No 74 |
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Date of assent |
15 December 1913 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Shops and Offices Act, 1908.
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Short Title.
This Act may be cited as the Shops and Offices Amendment Act, 1913, and shall form part of and be read together with the Shops and Offices Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Section 10 of principal Act amended.
Section ten of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following proviso to subsection two thereof:—
“Provided further that the Eden Terrace Road District shall form part of the Combined District of Auckland, and the said road district shall, for the purpose of determining the boundaries of the combined district, and also for the purpose of fixing the statutory closing-day within that district, be deemed to be a town district.”
3 Section 18 of principal Act amended.
Section eighteen of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, before the word “carried”
in paragraph (6), the word “exclusively”
; and by inserting, after the word “butcher”
in the same paragraph, the words “a pork-butcher.”
4 Section 25 of principal Act amended.
Section twenty-five of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the word “purposes”
in subsection five, the words “of subsection one.”
5 Section 31 of principal Act amended.
Section thirty-one of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding thereto the following paragraph:—
“(i.)
Suitable heating appliances, to the satisfaction of the Inspector, shall be provided.”
6 Section 8 of Amendment Act, 1910, amended.
Section eight of the Shop and Offices Amendment Act, 1910, is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph (b) the words “during the week,”
and substituting the words “on some working-day in the week.”
7 Section 9 of Amendment Act, 1910, amended.
Section nine of the Shops and Offices Amendment Act, 1910, is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:—
“(2.)
Every assistant who fails to sign the record as provided by this section or who signs any incorrect record is liable to a fine of one pound.”
8 Whole holiday to assistants in hotels or restaurants may be provided for in award or industrial agreement.
Notwithstanding anything in the Shops and Offices Amendment Act, 1910, provision may be made in any award or industrial agreement under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908, relating to assistants employed in hotels or restaurants for a whole holiday of twenty-four hours on any day in each week in lieu of the half-holiday or whole holiday provided for in the said Act:
Provided that in the case of any such award such provision shall, on application in that behalf, be made unless the Court, in the case of any specified hotel or restaurant, or in the case of all hotels or restaurants in any specified locality, is satisfied that such provision would not be reasonably practicable, in which case the said provision may be modified in respect of such hotels or restaurants.
9 Not to apply to hotels and restaurants employing less than five persons.
(1.)
The last preceding section shall not apply to hotels or restaurants in which less than five persons (other than the occupier and the members of his or her family) are ordinarily employed.
(2.)
For the purposes of this section the members of the family of the occupier shall include only the occupier’s wife or husband, as the case may be, and his or her sons and daughters.
10 Sitting accommodation for women.
Section eight of the principal Act is hereby repealed, and the following section substituted therefor:—
“8
With respect to female shop-assistants the following provisions shall apply.
“(a.)
Reasonable and convenient sitting-accommodation to the satisfaction of the Inspector shall at all times be provided for each such assistant employed in the shop;
“(b.)
Such assistants shall be allowed to avail themselves of such accommodation at reasonable intervals throughout the day; and
“(c.)
No such assistant shall be dismissed, nor shall her wages be reduced, by reason merely that she has availed herself of the sitting-accommodation, unless the occupier proves that she has done so to an unreasonable extent.”
11 Section 5 of Amendment Act, 1910, amended.
Paragraph (a) of subsection one of section five of the Shops and Offices Amendment Act, 1910, is hereby amended by omitting the words “fifty-eight,”
and substituting in lieu thereof the words “fifty-six.”
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