SHOPS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1946

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SHOPS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1946 - SECT 25



25.(1) The total number of hours worked in or about the business of a shop by
a young person exclusive of intervals allowed for meals and rest, shall

(a)in the case of a young person who has attained the age of sixteen years,
not exceed forty-four in any week; and

(b)in the case of a young person who has not attained the age of sixteen
years, not exceed forty in any week.

(2) Every young person employed in or about the business of a shop shall be
allowed intervals for meals in accordance with the Fourth Schedule to
this Act.

(3) On at least one week day in each week, to be notified in such form and
manner as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Ministry under
this Act, a young person employed in or about the business of a shop shall not
be so employed after one o'clock in the afternoon.

(4) A young person shall not be employed in or about the business of a shop on
a Sunday unless he receives in respect of his employment on that Sunday a
whole holiday on a week day either in the week beginning on that Sunday or in
the previous week, being a week day other than that on which under the last
preceding sub-section he is not to be employed after one o'clock in the
afternoon.

(5) In determining for the purposes of this Act the number of working hours
for which a young person has in any week or period of two or three consecutive
weeks been employed in or about the business of a shop, he shall be deemed to
have been employed about the business thereof during any time during which he
was in that week or period employed in or about the business of any other shop
or in a factory:

Provided that if in any proceedings against the occupier of a shop in respect
of a contravention of the provisions of this Part of this Act relating to the
employment of young persons, it is shown that the contravention occurred only
by reason of time during which a young person was employed by another employer
being deemed in accordance with the provisions of this sub-section to be time
during which he was employed in or about the business of that shop, it shall
be a defence to prove that the occupier did not know and could not with
reasonable diligence have ascertained that the young person was employed for
that time by the other employer.

(6) A young person who has to the knowledge of the occupier of a shop been
previously employed on any day in a factory, shall not be employed on that day
in or about the business of the shop for a longer period than will, together
with the time during which he has been previously employed on that day in the
factory, complete the number of hours permitted by the Factories Act (Northern
Ireland), 1938.

(7) For the purposes of this section a young person shall be deemed to be
employed by the person for whom he works notwithstanding that he receives no
wages for his work.

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SHOPS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1946 - SECT 25