SHAVES ON SUNDAY
JEWISH BARBERS ONLV
Sunday shaves/and Sunday hair cuts arc now illegal in London unless the barber is a Jew. This is the effect of the Hairdressers and Barbers’ Shops (Sunday Closing) Act, 1930, which came into operation on Ist January. A strict ban is placed on Gentiles opening barbers’ shops on Sunday. The attendance of a nonJewish barber on Sunday is permissible onlv — , 1., (a) In any place, if the customer iS unable or by reason of bodily or mental infirmity, to go to the place where the hairdressing business is carried on. j (h) In any hotel, if the customer is a resident. (c) In any sea-going ship. A Jewish hairdresser is exempted from the provisions of the Act on the condition that — ■ (a) He shall not carry on the business on Saturday. • . (b) He shall previously give botice to the local 'authority. (c) He shall cause to be kept conspicuously posted in the shop a notice slating that it is open on Sunday for tl u . purposes of the business, but is not 'men Saturday for tlmse purposes.; ‘The pens It v for breaking the law m co for the first, offence and C2O tor a subsequent offence.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 21 February 1931, Page 9
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203SHAVES ON SUNDAY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 21 February 1931, Page 9
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