HL Deb 19 July 1928 vol 71 cc1213-4

Transactions not prevented by this Act or by Closing Orders made wider the Principal Act.

1. The sale after the closing hour of— (d) tobacco or matches on licensed premises during the hours during which intoxicating liquor is permitted by law to be sold on the premises;

VISCOUNT YOUNGER OF LECKIE moved a manuscript Amendment, in paragraph (d), after "tobacco," to insert "table waters." The noble Viscount said: The object of this Amendment is to repair an omission. Under paragraph (d) of the Schedule as it stands you can get a glass of whisky but you cannot get a bottle of soda water. I beg to move.

Amendment moved— Page 6, line 29, after ("tobacco") insert ("table waters").—(Viscount Younger of Leckie.)

First Schedule, as amended, agreed to.

LORD DESBOROUGH moved, after the First Schedule, to insert the following new schedule:—

"Method of calculating the holidays to which any shop assistant is entitled under Subsection (3) of Section six of this Act.

"1. The number of extra hours for which a shop assistant has been employed in or about the business of the shop while any one or more orders have been in force under Section six of this Act shall be added together, any fraction of an hour not exceeding hall being treated as half an hour, and any fraction of an hour exceeding half being treated as an hour.

"2. For the purposes of this Schedule the number of hours comprised in the customary working day on days other than half holidays shall be taken as the standard unit.

"3. The aggregate number of the extra hours, as calculated in accordance with the provisions of paragraph I of this Schedule, shall be divided by the standard unit, and the quotient, fractions thereof being disregarded, shall be the number of the days' holiday to which the shop assistant shall be entitled."

The noble Lord said: I have on the Paper a new schedule which deals with the method of calculating the holidays to which a shop assistant is entitled under Clause 6 (3) of the Bill. It is practically an agreed addition to the schedules, and I beg to move.

Amendment moved— Page 7, line 18, at end insert the said new schedule.—(Lord Desborough.)

Remaining Schedules agreed to.