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).

Section ten of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following proviso to subsection two thereof:—

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.”

Section twenty-five of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the word “purposes” in subsection five, the words “of subsection one.”

Section thirty-one of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding thereto the following paragraph:—

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.”

Section nine of the Shops and Offices Amendment Act, 1910, is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:—

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.

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.

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.

Section eight of the principal Act is hereby repealed, and the following section substituted therefor:—

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.”