Interpretation

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, “Christmas period” means the nine working days immediately preceding Christmas Day; “Labour Commissioner” means the person for the time being in charge of the Labour Department; “member of the occupier’s family” means the occupier’s child, father, mother, brother, sister, wife or husband (as the case may be) and includes any person who is maintained by, and resides with, the occupier; “occupier” means the owner of the business carried on in any shop, and includes any person for the time being having immediate control over any shop; “public holiday” has the same meaning as it has in the Holidays Act, Cap. 289. 6 “shop” includes any building or portion of building premises or place where any wholesale or retail trade or business is carried on or transacted and includes any premises in which the business of a barber or hairdresser Provided that the term “shop” shall not include a factory, a public market or a bazaar, or any public entertainment or performance lawfully held for charitable, religious or public purposes and not for private gain; “shop assistant” means any person, other than a member of the occupier’s family, wholly or mainly employed in or about a shop in connection with the service of customers or the receipt of orders or moneys or the receipt or dispatch of goods and includes apprentices, learners and clerical workers employed wholly or mainly in connection with the service of customers, Provided that no person employed solely as a caretaker, watchman, craftsman, or domestic servant, other than a servant engaged in the catering trade, shall be regarded as a shop assistant for the purposes of this Act; “week” means the period between midnight on Saturday night and midnight on the succeeding Saturday night.