Restriction on working hours

(1) Except as is otherwise provided in this Act, no occupier shall employ a shop assistant in or about a shop, 7 (a) on Sundays and public holidays; (b) for a period exceeding eight hours in any day, or forty-five hours in the aggregate in any week; (c) for more than six days in any week; (d) continuously for more than five hours without an interval from work of at least one hour; or (e) in contravention of subsection (3) of this section: Provided that this subsection shall not apply during the Christmas period when shop assistants may be employed in accordance with the provisions of section 11 of this Act. (2) Subsection (1) (a) of this section shall not apply to a shop assistant employed in or about a shop referred to in section 8 (2) (d) and (e) of this Act. (3) The Minister shall by Order published in the Gazette specify two week days for each town or area to which this Act applies, and a shop assistant, who has been employed in or about a shop on the first named of such days after half-past one o’clock in the afternoon, shall not in the same week be so employed after that hour on the second named of such days. (4) Any occupier who fails to comply with this section commits an offence.