Malaysia legislation
Section 3
Section 3
(a)
an unassisted shop may remain open on both Friday and
Sunday in each week on condition that on either Friday or
Sunday in each week only the proprietor shall attend to the customers;
(b)
the Director General may, upon application being made to him in that behalf, in the manner prescribed, by the proprietor or the manager, give written permission in the case of any shop for some other day to be substituted in any particular week for the day chosen by such proprietor or manager and this subsection shall thereupon apply in the case of that shop to such day accordingly and not to the day of that week chosen; and
(c)
the Director General may, upon application being made to him in that behalf by the proprietor or manager, give written permission that in any particular week a specified piece of work be performed in any shop on the day on which that shop, in accordance with this subsection, would otherwise be entirely closed; and the Director
General shall, if he gives such written permission, specify a day in that particular week or in the week next following on which all persons to be employed in such specified piece of work shall be given a whole holiday in lieu of the whole holiday which they would otherwise have been given under this subsection.
(2)
The proprietor or the manager shall specify in a notice, in such form as may be prescribed, the day in each week on which a
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shop is closed in pursuance of subsection (1) and shall exhibit such notice permanently in a conspicuous place in the shop.
(3)
The day chosen by the proprietor or manager in accordance with subsection (1) shall not be altered by the proprietor or manager more often than once in six months.
(4)
The proprietor of an unassisted shop shall specify in such notice as may be prescribed the day in each week on which he only will attend to customers as provided for in proviso of paragraph 1(a), and shall exhibit such notice permanently in a conspicuous place in such unassisted shop.
(5)
The Minister may from time to time, by notification in the
Gazette add to, alter or amend the Schedule.
Provisions relating to shops where more than one business is carried on