S.I. No. 309/1948 - General Drapery and Footwear Shops (Hours of Trading on Weekdays) (Castlerea) Order, 1948.

S.I. No. 309 of 1948.

GENERAL DRAPERY AND FOOTWEAR SHOPS (HOURS OF TRADING ON WEEKDAYS) (CASTLEREA) ORDER, 1948.

The Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on him 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 orders as follows :—

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the General Drapery and Footwear Shops (Hours of Trading on Weekdays) (Castlerea) Order, 1948.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 27th day of September, 1948.

2. The area, described, before the 1st day of October, 1925, as the Castlerea Rural District in the County of Roscommon, shall be a trading area for the purposes of this Order.

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 the business of selling general drapery or footwear, whether any other business is or is not carried on in the shop.

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

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

(b) on any other weekday, before the hour of 9 a.m. or after the hour of 6 p.m.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Industry and Commerce this 14th day of September, 1948;

(Signed) JOHN LEYDON,

Secretary,

Department of Industry and Commerce.

A person authorised under Section 15 (1) of the Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924 , to authenticate the seal of the said Minister.