§ Mr. JOWETTasked the Home Secretary whether he will say, and if he will publish the information for the guidance of the persons concerned in the matter, if 1570 a boot-repairing shop is a shop within the meaning of the Shops Act, 1911, and if the execution of repairs for a customer and charging for the same by a boot repairer who does not sell boots or keep a shop constitutes a sale within the meaning of the Act in question?
§ Mr. McKENNAI am advised that premises in which only the business of boot repairing is carried on, and no articles are sold, do not come within the Shops Act, 1912. Persons making inquiry of the Home Office on the point have already been so informed. Perhaps the present question and answer will be sufficient publication of the Home Office view on the point.