7. Shops to be closed on five additional days every year
Feedback & supportIn addition to those other holidays prescribed by this Act, every shop, other than an unassisted shop or a shop included in any class of shops mentioned in the Schedule, shall be entirely closed on not less than five days every year, to be chosen by the proprietor or manager, and every person employed in any such shop shall be given a whole holiday on each such day.
The proprietor or the manager shall specify in a notice, in such form as may be prescribed, the days chosen in accordance with subsection (1) and shall exhibit such notice permanently in a conspicuous place in the shop.
proprietor
“proprietor” means the owner of the controlled business in any shop or the licensee of any theatre or restaurant;
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In addition to the holidays required to be given by subsection 6(1) every person employed in a shop of a class mentioned in the
shop
“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;
Schedule or in any restaurant or theatre shall be given in every year a whole holiday on five other days to be chosen by the proprietor or manager.
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;
If in any year any of the days chosen by the proprietor or manager in compliance with subsection (1) is a day on which his shop is required to be entirely closed under section 3 then the day next following on which the shop would otherwise be opened shall be deemed to be a day chosen in compliance with subsection (1) and the shop shall be entirely closed on that day.
manager
“manager” means any person appointed to be in charge of or to manage a shop, theatre or restaurant;