A LEGAL LABYRINTH.
HOTEL AWARDS AND ACTS.
' .. new- provisions of the Licensing Act ; are not tho only worry hotelkeepers cava at tho present time. The amendments to the Shops and Offices Act passed- last session are also exercising them, and are said by some to be a veritable legislative labyrinth. Tho confusion is increased by the fact that some hotels arc working under an award, .others under the Shops and Offices Act, and all are bound by tho. Licensing Act. J. S.' Palmer, president of tho Licensed Victuallers' Association, interviewed by the Auckland "Herald," said that in the Shops and. Offices Act of .1908, with its amendments .of 1910, there ' was a. strong element of inconsistency. In . tho Act of 1908 thero were some 50 sec- -. tioiis, very few. of.-which affected the licensee's.position. The amending Act changed the position considerably, placing x some hotels under, its operations, and . exempting others to a greater or less extent, according to the Arbitration Court awards they might, be under. The sections that did-affect tho hotel licensee were ■ in many respects inconsistent and conflicting in character. For example. Section 3 of the amending Act extended and applied the definitions of "shop" and . "shop-assistant" contained' in Section 2 of the principal Act to hotels and res- { taurants. That section defined a; "shop-- ' assistant" as meaning "any I 'person (whether: a member of- the occupier's family j or . not) who 'is empldyed by the occupier, of a'shop-in or about the business of" the shop,'' etc.' • Sub-section 6 of, Sec- ; tion 5 of the-amending ActVos ! in'cvi: dent conflict "witlr'thls, 'as it declared that -"neither l the wife nor the .children of- the occupier • shall bo deemed to be Assistants within the meaning of the i'Act." Which applied? asked Mj\ Palmer. .. Section : 3, : with its extension of euch definitions to members of the, occu- ■ pier s family, as defined in the principal , Act, ot tho pxemption •of such members?
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1017, 5 January 1911, Page 5
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321A LEGAL LABYRINTH. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1017, 5 January 1911, Page 5
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