Malaysia legislation
Section 2
Section 2
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires–
“controlled business” means any one or more of the following trades or businesses, namely, any retail trade or business (including retail sales by auction but not including the sale of programmes and catalogues and other similar sales at theatres and places of amusement), the sale of intoxicating liquor under licence, the business of a pawnbroker, barber, hairdresser, tailor, laundryman, dry-cleaner and dyer and any wholesale business declared by the
Minister, by notification in the Gazette, to be a controlled business for the purposes of this Act;
“day” means a period of twenty-four hours beginning at midnight;
“Director General” means the Director General of Labour;
“manager” means any person appointed to be in charge of or to manage a shop, theatre or restaurant;
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“Peninsular Malaysia” has the meaning assigned thereto in section 3 of the Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967 [Act 388], and includes the Federal Territory;
“proprietor” means the owner of the controlled business in any shop or the licensee of any theatre or restaurant;
“restaurant” means any premises in which is carried on principally or wholly the business of supplying meals or refreshments to the public or a class of the public for consumption on the premises;
“shop” means all directly inter-connected premises or contiguous places used by any person for–
(a)
exposing goods for sale as part of any controlled business carried on by him;
(b)
the storage, preparation, processing or manufacture of goods, some or all of which are ordinarily disposed of in the course of any controlled business carried on by him; or
(c)
any other purpose of a controlled business carried on by him, or, where part only of any premises or places are so used, means that part:
Provided that the term “shop” shall not include a restaurant or any bazaar for charitable or public purposes, or any separate room or workshop used exclusively for the storage, preparation, processing or manufacture of goods which are of a description ordinarily disposed of in a substantial quantities otherwise than as part of the business of a controlled business;
“theatre” includes any premises intended principally or wholly for the presentation of moving pictures, dramatic performances or stage entertainment or for use as a dance hall;
“unassisted shop” means any shop in which the controlled business is carried on by the sole proprietor without assistance other than that of the husband, wife or one of the children of the proprietor;
Weekly Holidays 7
“week” means the period between midnight on any Saturday night and midnight on the succeeding Saturday night.
Closing of shops