No. 147/1946:

DRAPERY AND BOOT SHOPS (HOURS OF TRADING ON WEEKDAYS) (LONGFORD URBAN DISTRICT) ORDER, 1946.

DRAPERY AND BOOT SHOPS (HOURS OF TRADING ON WEEKDAYS) (LONGFORD URBAN DISTRICT) ORDER, 1946.

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 Drapery and Boot Shops (Hours of Trading on Weekdays) (Longford Urban District) Order, 1946.

(2) This order shall come into operation on the 1st day of June, 1946.

2. The urban district of Longford 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 carred on the business of selling drapery or 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 four weekdays immediately preceding Christmas Day, before the hour of 9 a.m. or, unless such day is Saturday, after the hour of 7.30 p.m.,

(b) on any other weekday (not being a Saturday), before the hours of 9 a.m. or after the hour of 6.30 p.m.,

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

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 17th day of April, 1946.

(Signed) SEÁN F. LEMASS,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.