Shops (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1938

Intervals for meals.

22.—(1) Each member of the staff of a shop shall be allowed intervals for meals in accordance with rules contained in the Second Schedule to this Act.

(2) If there is in relation to any member of the staff of a shop any contravention of this section, the proprietor of such shop shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to the penalties mentioned in the Third Schedule to this Act.

(3) This section shall not apply in respect of a member of the staff of a shop, which is a railway bookstall on or adjoining a railway platform.