ELECTION DAY
REQUIREMENTS OF LEGISLATURE ACT.
■Some doubt has been expressed as to the observance of half-holiday on polling day (next Wednesday, and it may be well to point out the obligations of factory occupiers and shopkeepers. Section 123 of the Legislature Act, .1908, provides as follows: — FACTORIES. (3) It shall not be necessary for any factory to close during any workinghours on the polling day, but the occupier of the factory shall afford to each of his employees a reasonable opportunity of recording his vote, and no deduction shall be made from the wages of any such employee in respect of the time occupied in so recording his vote, provided that such time does not exceed one working-hour. (4) Every occupier of a factory who commits a breach of the last preceding sub-section is liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds in respect of every employee. ’ Factory occupiers are thus required merely to give their employees reasonable time to record their votes, but not exceeding one working-hour, without deduction from their wages. SHOPS. The Legislature Act provides that where the half-holiday is usually required to be observed in each week on another day than Wednesday, that halfholiday shall in election week be observed in lieu thereof.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1680, 31 October 1925, Page 5
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208ELECTION DAY Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1680, 31 October 1925, Page 5
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