S.I. No. 137/1948:

SHOPS (HOURS OF TRADING) ACT, 1938 (PART III) (EXEMPTED BUSINESS) ORDER, 1948.

SHOPS (HOURS OF TRADING) ACT, 1938 (PART III) (EXEMPTED BUSINESS) ORDER, 1948.

The Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by subsection (3) of section 22 of the Shops (Hours of Trading) Act, 1938 (No. 3 of 1938), hereby orders as follows :--

1.--(1) This Order may be cited as the Shops (Hours of Trading) Act, 1938 (Part III) (Exempted Business) Order, 1948.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of May, 1948.

2. The business specified in the Schedule hereto shall be an exempted business for the purposes of Part III of the Shops (Hours of Trading) Act, 1938 (No. 3 of 1938).

SCHEDULE.

The business of selling by retail goods from automatic vending machines.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, this 13th day of April, 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.