Shop Hours Act 1892
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1892 c. 62 |
| Year | 1892 |
Shop Hours Act, 1892.
(55 & 56 Vict.) CHAPTER 62.
An Act to amend the Law relating to the Employment of Young Persons in Shops.
[28th June 1892]
Whereas the health of many young persons employed in shops and warehouses is seriously injured by reason of the length of the period of employment:
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen'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, as follows:
1 Short title.
1. This Act may be cited as theShop Hours Act, 1892.
2 Commencement of Act.
2. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of September one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.
3 Hours of employment in shops.
(1)3.—(1.) No young person shall be employed in or about a shop for a longer period than seventy-four hours, including meal times, in any one week.
(2) No young person shall to the knowledge of his employer be employed in or about a shop having been previously on the same day employed in any factory or workshop, as defined by the Factory and Workshop Act, 1878 , for the number of hours permitted by the said Act or for a longer period than will together with the time during which he has been so previously employed complete such number of hours.
4 Notice of hours to be given.
4. In every shop in which a young person is employed a notice shall be kept exhibited by the employer in a conspicuous place referring to the provisions of this Act and stating the number of hours in the week during which a young person may lawfully be employed in that shop.
5 Fine for employing persons contrary to the Act.
5. Where any young person is employed in or about a shop contrary to the provisions of this Act, the employer shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one pound for each person so employed.
6 Power of occupier to exempt himself from fine on conviction of actual offender.
6. Where the employer of any young person is charged with an offence against this Act, he shall be entitled upon information duly laid by him to have any other person whom he charges as the actual offender brought before the court at the time appointed for hearing the charge; and if, after the commission of the...
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