Part-time employment

(1) An occupier may employ a part-time shop assistant in or about a shop, (a) after half-past one o’clock in the afternoon on any of the weekdays specified under section 4 (3) of this Act; and 10 (b) between the hours of seven o’clock and ten o’clock in the evening of every day of the week (except on Sundays and on public Provided that a part-time shop assistant shall not be so employed if he has, to the knowledge of the occupier, been previously employed during the same week in another shop. (2) Such part-time employment shall not exceed eighteen hours in any week. (3) A rate of not less than ninety-four cents per hour shall be paid to every part-time shop assistant employed in accordance with paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of this section. (4) For the purposes of this section, a part-time shop assistant means a shop assistant who is not employed in or about a shop for more than eighteen hours in any week. (5) Subsection (1)(a) and (b) of this section, shall not apply to part-time shop assistants employed in or about the premises referred to in section 8 (2) of this Act. (6) Any occupier who, (a) employs a part-time shop assistant knowing him to have been previously employed during the same week in another shop; or (b) employs a part-time shop assistant otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of this section, commits an offence. 11