SHOP REGISTRATION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1083, 23 March 1911, Page 4

SHOP REGISTRATION.

UNDER RECENT LEGISLATION. The provisions of the Shops and Offices Act Amendment Act nominally camo into operation last December. The Department is now issuing largo circulars to all owners of shops in the Dominion (a heavy task) giving the principal clauses in tho Act in a display form. Instructions aro at the same time being sent out that the extracts are to bo posted up in a part of the shop where they can bo readily seen by the shop assistants. Another circular which accompanies the extracts directs that a wages and time book (on the lines of a specimen supplied) is required by Section 12 of the Act to bo kept by occupiers of shops where 'assistants aro employed. Wages books of the form suggested, it is said, may bo procured from booksellers at a price of, sav, about. 3s. 6d. ' A further form to be filled in and returned to the Department by April 1 runs as follows:— "In accordance with Section 13 of tho Shops and Offices Amendment Act, 1910, I (or we) hereby make application for the registration of my (or our) shop in tho name of (blank) as occupier." The effect of the registration of shops under this .section is that except in the case'of husband or wife, only the person so registered as the occupier may conduct 6alcs or assist at the samo after the hours fixed by the Act for assistants. That is to say tho other parties may work after tho hours fixed, but only when the shop is closed. This is the section of the Act that caused so keen a discussion during its passage through the House. The quantity of literature to bo sent to each shopkeeper comprises in all four form?, and is very considerable. '