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Shops Amendment Act 2005

SAMOA

SHOPS AMENDMENT ACT 2005

Arrangement of Provisions

1. Short title and commencement
2. Interpretation

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2005, No. 6

AN ACT to amend the Shops Ordinance 1961.

[22nd April 2005]

BE IT ENACTED the Legislative Assembly of Samoa in Parliament assembled as follows:-

1. Short title and commencement - (1) This Act may be cited as the Shops Amendment Act 2005 and shall be read with and form part of the Shops Ordinance 1961 (the Principal Act).

(2) This Act shall come into force on the day it is assented to by the Head of State.

(3) Notice of commencement of this Act shall be published in Samoan and English in the Savali and one other newspaper circulating in Samoa.

2. Interpretation - Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended by deleting the words:

"Labour day which shall be the first Monday of August and that such a holiday shall be celebrated for the first time in the year 1995"

from the definition of "Public holiday" and replacing them with the following words:

"Fathers' day which is the Monday immediately, following the second Sunday in August".

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The Shops Amendment Act 2005 is administered in the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labour