Home Office: Shops and Non-Industrial Employment (SHO Symbol Series) Files

Files from the Home Office SHO (Shops and Non-Industrial Employment) series. These files deal with the Home Office's responsibilities for shops and other non-industrial places of employment.

The papers in this series are arranged in numerical order by departmental file number. The inclusion of a date preceding a file number (as in SHO (1959) 1/21/1) indicates that the year in which the file was created was included in the file reference number. Thus the full departmental reference of a file listed as SHO (1959) 1/21/1 would be SHO/59 1/21/1.

From 1986 Home Office

Topics

Labour

Home Office involvement in shops is defined by the Shops Act 1950 (which consolidated previous Shops Acts 1912-1936). The main functions are the definition of shop closing hours (evenings and Sundays), the outline of what items may be sold outside standard hours and on Sundays and the definition of a shop. The responsibilities of the department with regard to Non-Industrial Employment are as defined in the Young Persons (Employment) Act 1938, the Factories Act 1961, and the Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963.