S.I. No. 245/1947 - Hardware, Drapery and Boot Shops (Hours of Trading on Week-Days) (Drogheda and Dundalk) Order, 1947.


STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1947. No. 245.

HARDWARE, DRAPERY AND BOOT SHOPS (HOURS OF TRADING ON WEEK-DAYS) (DROGHEDA AND DUNDALK) ORDER, 1947.

I, SEÁN F. LEMASS, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 25 of the Shops (Hours of Trading) Act, 1938 (No. 3 of 1938), and after due compliance with subsection (1) of section 4 of the said Act, hereby order as follows:—

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Hardware, Drapery and Boot Shops (Hours of Trading on Week-days) (Drogheda and Dundalk) Order, 1947.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of June, 1947.

2. Each of the following shall be a trading area for the purposes of this Order :

(a) the urban district of Drogheda,

(b) the urban district of Dundalk.

3. In this Order the expression " shop to which this Order applies " means any shop, situate in the trading area for the purposes of this Order, in which there is carried on one or more of the following businesses.

(a) the business of selling hardware,

(b) the business of selling drapery,

(c) the business of selling footwear,

whether any other business is or is not carried on in the shop.

4. It shall not be lawful for the proprietor of a shop to which this Order applies to open or keep open the shop for the serving of customers—

(a) on any of the three week-days (not being a Saturday) immediately preceding Christmas Day, before the hour of 9 a.m. or after the hour of 7 p.m.,

(b) on a Saturday which is one of the three days immediately preceding Christmas Day, before the hour of 9 a.m. or after the hour of 9 p.m.,

(c) on any other Saturday before the hour of 9 a.m. or after the hour of 8 p.m.,

(d) on any week-day (not being a Saturday or a day referred to in paragraph (a) of this Article), before the hour of 9 a.m. or after the hour of 6 p.m.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 16th day of May, 1947.

(Signed) SEÁN F. LEMASS,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.