L—9

IV

Definition of "fishmonger " amended.

Section 21 of principal Act amended.

Excepted offices.

Overtime in excepted offices.

(ii.) If any of the trades mentioned in the Second Schedule hereto is carried on therein, after eleven o'clock in the evening on one working-day in each week or half-past ten o'clock in the evening on other workingdays ; nor (hi.) If none of the trades mentioned in the First or Second Schedules hereto is carried on therein, after eleven o'clock in the evening on one working-day in each week or six o'clock in the evening on other work-ing-days. (2.) The definitions contained in paragraph (a) of section fifteen of the principal Act shall extend and apply to this section. (3.) This section shall not affect the provisions of the principal Act relating to hours of employment or the weekly half-holiday. 3b. Paragraph (a) of section fifteen of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding at the end of the definition of "fishmonger " the words " or rabbits." 4. (1.) Subsection one of section twenty-one of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing the words " (not being one of the districts mentioned in section three hereof)." New subsection. (2.) Subsection two of the same section is hereby amended by adding thereto the words " and a requisition under this subsection shall be deemed to supersede a requisition under subsection one hereof so far as such particular trade or trades is concerned." New clauses. 4a. (1.) Section twenty-three of the principal Act shall not apply to any office in which is carried on any of the businesses mentioned in the Third Schedule hereto. (2.) The said section is hereby amended by repealing the proviso to subsection one thereof. 4b. With respect to every office in which is carried on any of the businesses mentioned in the Third Schedule hereto the following provisions shall apply :—■ (a.) The occupier of the office shall at all times keep a recordbook, called the " Extra-time Book," wherein shall be entered a correct record showing, in the case of each office-assistant employed after one o'clock in the afternoon on Saturdays and five o'clock in the afternoon of every other working-day, the name of the assistant, and the respective dates and periods of such employment: (b.) Where such extra time exceeds, in respect of any officeassistant, twenty hours in any one month, overtime at the rate of not less than one and a half times the ordinary rate of pay shall be paid for so much of such extra time as exceeds twenty hours : (c.) Payment of overtime shall be made at the first regular payday after the close of the month for which it became payable, and, if not so made, the amount thereof may be recovered by the Inspector on behalf of the officeassistant : (d.) The extra-time book shall at all times be open to the inspection of the office-assistants and of the Inspector.

Shops and Offices Act Amendment.