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17-770: (Redirected from Shops Bill ) Shops Bill or Shops Act may refer to several pieces of legislation in the United Kingdom: Shops Act 1911 , an Act that allowed a weekly half-day holiday for shopworkers Shops Act 1950 , an Act to regulate shop opening hours and Sunday trading Shops Bill 1986 , an attempt to repeal the 1950 Act and legalise Sunday trading Sunday Trading Act 1994 , an Act that legalised Sunday trading in England and Wales Sunday Working (Scotland) Act 2003 , an Act allowing workers in Scotland

34-408: A "closing order" fixing the hour (not earlier than 7 p.m., or on one day in the week 1 p.m.) at which shops in their area had to stop serving customers. Councils could decide the types of shops to which the order would apply. The consent of two-thirds of the owners of the shops affected was required to make the order, and in practice this proved difficult to obtain. 56 %26 57 Vict. Note that

51-520: The Shop Hours Act 1892 ( 55 & 56 Vict. c. 62), which also prescribed that a notice, referring to the provisions of the act, and stating the number of hours in the week during which a young person may be lawfully employed in the shop, shall be kept exhibited by the employer; the third requirement was first provided by the Seats for Shop Assistants Act 1899. A wide interpretation is given by

68-425: The "female assistants" for whom seats must be provided. The provisions of the act of 1892 did not apply to members of the same family living in a house of which the shop forms part, or to members of the employer's family, or to anyone wholly employed as a domestic servant. The Shop Hours Act 1893 ( 56 & 57 Vict. c. 67) provided for the salaries and expenses of the inspectors appointed by councils under by

85-731: The Parliament of Ireland . For acts of the devolved parliaments and assemblies in the United Kingdom, see the list of acts of the Scottish Parliament , the list of acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly , and the list of acts and measures of Senedd Cymru ; see also the list of acts of the Parliament of Northern Ireland . The number shown after each act's title is its chapter number. Acts passed before 1963 are cited using this number, preceded by

102-480: The Shop Hours Act 1892 ( 55 & 56 Vict. c. 62). The Shop Hours Act 1895 ( 58 & 59 Vict. c. 5) provided a penalty for failure of a shop to keep exhibited the notice of the provisions of the earlier acts, which in the absence of a penalty it had been impossible to enforce. Neither the term "employer " nor "shop assistant" (used in the title of the act of 1899) was defined; but other terms had

119-448: The act of 1892 to the class of workplace to which the limitation of hours applies. "Shop" means retail and wholesale shops, markets, stalls and warehouses in which assistants are employed for hire, and includes licensed public-houses and refreshment houses of any kind. The person responsible for the observance of the acts is the "employer" of the "young persons" (i.e., persons under the age of eighteen years), whose hours are limited, and of

136-419: The first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain or of Ireland ). For acts passed up until 1707, see the list of acts of the Parliament of England and the list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland . For acts passed from 1707 to 1800, see the list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain . See also the list of acts of

153-430: The first very limited steps taken towards the positive regulation of the employment of shop assistants in the United Kingdom. The House had resolved that more drastic legislation was required. As regards shops, therefore, in place of such general codes as apply to factories, laundries, mines—only three kinds of protective requirement are binding on employers of shop assistants: The first two requirements are contained in

170-577: The last session of the Parliament of Great Britain and the first session of the Parliament of the United Kingdom are both cited as "41 Geo. 3". Acts passed from 1963 onwards are simply cited by calendar year and chapter number. All modern acts have a short title , e.g. the Local Government Act 2003. Some earlier acts also have a short title given to them by later acts, such as by the Short Titles Act 1896 . The second session of

187-404: The latter year, there were 22,035 employing persons under eighteen years of age. In 1900, the number of young persons under the acts were: indoors, 10,239 boys and 4,428 girls; outdoors, 35,019 boys, 206 girls. In 1905, the ratio between boys and girls had decidedly altered: indoors, 6,602 boys, 4,668 girls; outdoors, 22,654 boys, 308 girls. The number of irregularities reported in 1900 was 9,204 and

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204-601: The meaning assigned to them in the Factory and Workshop Act 1878 . The "employer" had, in case of any contravention alleged, the same power as the "occupier" in the Factory Acts to exempt himself from fines on proof of due diligence and of the fact that some other person is the actual offender. In London, where the county council appointed men and women inspectors to apply the acts of 1892 to 1899, there were, in 1900, 73,929 premises, and in 1905, 84,269, under inspection. In

221-452: The prosecutions were 111; in 1905 the irregularities were 6966 and the prosecutions numbered 34. As regards the act of 1899, in only 1,088 of the 14,844 shops affected in London was there found in 1900 to be failure to provide seats for the women employed in retailing goods. The Shop Hours Act 1904 ( 4 Edw. 7 . c. 31) gave certain additional optional powers to local authorities, making

238-513: The right to refuse to work on a Sunday Christmas Day (Trading) Act 2004 , an Act making it illegal for large shops to open on Christmas Day Sunday Trading (London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games) Act 2012 , an Act that suspended Sunday trading laws in London for eight weekends from 22 July 2012 during the Olympics and Paralympics Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

255-470: The title Shops Act . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shops_Act&oldid=918822066 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Shops Act 1911 The Shops Act 1911

272-496: The year(s) of the reign during which the relevant parliamentary session was held; thus the Union with Ireland Act 1800 is cited as "39 & 40 Geo. 3 c. 67", meaning the 67th act passed during the session that started in the 39th year of the reign of George III and which finished in the 40th year of that reign. Note that the modern convention is to use Arabic numerals in citations (thus "41 Geo. 3" rather than "41 Geo. III"). Acts of

289-624: Was a United Kingdom piece of legislation which allowed a weekly half holiday for shop staff. This became known in Britain as "early closing day". It formed part of the Liberal welfare reforms of 1906–1914. Four brief acts, the Shop Hours Act 1892 ( 55 & 56 Vict. c. 62), the Shop Hours Act 1893 ( 56 & 57 Vict. c. 67), the Shop Hours Act 1895 ( 58 & 59 Vict. c. 5) and the Seats for Shop Assistants Act 1899 ( 62 & 63 Vict. c. 21), were

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