Barbers' Shops (Sunday Closing)

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Provide for the compulsory closing of hairdressers' A.D. 1928. and barbers' shops on Sundays.

E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, 5 as follows:

1. It shall not be lawful for any person to carry on Closing of the trade or business of a hairdresser or barber on any hairdressers Sunday:

and barbers'

shops on

Provided that nothing in this section shall prevent Sundays. 10 a hairdresser or barber from attending any customer in the customer's residence or elsewhere in illness:

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Provided also that this Act shall not apply to any person of the Jewish religion carrying on the trade or 15 business of a hairdresser or barber if such person does not carry on such trade or business on any Saturday otherwise than by attending any customer in the customer's residence or elsewhere in case of illness.

2. Any person contravening any of the provisions Penalties. 20 of this Act shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding in the case of a first offence five pounds, and in the case of a second or subsequent offence twenty pounds.

A.D. 1928.

Enforce-
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Short title

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Barbers' Shops (Sunday Closing).

3. For the purposes of enforcement the provisions of sections thirteen and fourteen of the Shops Act, 1912, shall be deemed to be incorporated with this Act.

4. This Act may be cited as the Hairdressers' and Barbers' Shops (Sunday Closing) Act, 1928, and shall mencement. come into operation on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine.

To provide for the compulsory closing
of hairdressers' and barbers' shops
on Sundays.

Ordered to be brought in by

Mr. Stewart, Mr. Templeton,

Mr. Morgan Jones, Mr. Barr, Mr. Hayes,
Mr. Sutton, Mr. Robert Morrison,
Mr. John Jones, Sir Samuel Chapman,
Colonel Moore, and Mr. Womersley.

Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 22 February 1928.

To be purchased directly from

H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses:
Adastral House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2;

120, George Street, Edinburgh: York Street, Manchester;
1,St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff; 15, Donegall Square West, Belfast;
or through any Bookseller.

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Amend the Law of Distress and Bankruptcy in A.D. 1928. its relation to the Hire-Purchase System.

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E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the 5 same, as follows:

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1. From and after the passing of this Act, goods Goods and chattels personal comprised in a hire-purchase exempt agreement or simple hiring agreement and not in the from dispossession of the true owner thereof, shall be exempt cluded in 10 from distress for rent, rates, water rents, gas and elec- bankruptcy, tricity charges and taxes and shall not be divisible and not to amongst the creditors of a bankrupt hirer, and shall become not become fixtures, and (subject to the provisions fixtures. of the hire-purchase agreement or simple hiring agree15 ment) shall be removable by the true owner at any time and as against all persons and shall not during the currency of the hire-purchase agreement or simple hiring agreement, or at any time thereafter, be or be deemed to be or to have at any time been impressed 20 with any trust in favour of any person or persons by reason only that such goods and chattels may have been acquired at the request of a hirer by any person or persons with a view to the same being comprised in the hire-purchase agreement or simple hiring agree25 ment.

2. This Act may be cited as the Hire-Purchase Short title. System Act, 1928.

Bill.

ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES.

Clause.

1. Obligation to use quota of home-grown wheat.

2. Power to fix quota.

3. Register of wheat milled.

4. Penalty for failure to observe quota.

5.

Restriction on sale of imported wheat meal and flour.

6. Statutory declaration.

7. Register of purchases and sales.

8. Exception for small sales.

9. Execution of Act by local authorities. 10. Regulations.