S.I. No. 175/1948:

VICTUALLERS' SHOPS (HOURS OF TRADING ON WEEKDAYS) (DUBLIN, DUN LAOGHAIRE AND BRAY) ORDER, 1948.

VICTUALLERS' SHOPS (HOURS OF TRADING ON WEEKDAYS) (DUBLIN, DUN LAOGHAIRE AND BRAY) ORDER, 1948.

The Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 25 of the Shops (Hours of Trading) Act, 1938 (No. 3 of 1938), and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling and after due compliance with subsection (1) of section 4 of the said Act, hereby orders as follows, that is to say :--

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Victuallers' Shops (Hours of Trading on weekdays) (Dublin, Dun Laoghaire and Bray) Order, 1948.

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

2. In this Order the expression " victualler's shop " means any shop in which the business of selling any one or more of the following, namely, fresh beef, mutton, lamb, and veal, is carried on (whether any other business is or is not carried on in that shop), but does not include any shop in which the only business carried on therein is that of selling meat killed and prepared by the Jewish ritual method.

3. The county borough of Dublin, the borough of Dun Laoghaire and the urban district of Bray, shall be a trading area for the purposes of this Order, and the expression " the trading area " means in this Order the said county borough, borough and urban district.

4. (1) It shall not be lawful for the proprietor of any victualler's shop in the trading area to open or keep such shop open for the serving of customers--

(a) on any weekday (other than Saturday) before the hour of 8 a.m. or after the hour of 6 p.m., or

(b) on any Saturday before the hour of 8 a.m. or after the hour of 6.30 p.m.

(2) Where

(a) a day (being Christmas Day or St. Patrick's Day) falls on a weekday, and

(b) a victualler's shop in the trading area closes for the whole of that day, and

(c) the weekday next preceding that day is not Saturday,

the proprietor of such shop may, notwithstanding anything in paragraph (a) of sub-article (1) of this article, open or keep such shop open for the serving of customers between the hours of 6 p.m. and 6.30 p.m. on the weekday preceding that day.

5. The Victuallers' Shops (Hours of Trading on Weekdays) (Dublin City) Order, 1938 ( S. R. & O. No. 303 of 1938 ), is hereby revoked.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Industry and Commerce this 12th day of May, 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.