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Act 220

WEEKLY HOLIDAYS ACT 1950

As at 1 May 2015

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1.    Short title and application

2.    Interpretation

3.    Closing of shops

4.    Provisions relating to shops where more than one business is carried on

5.    Additional half-day closing or holiday

6.    Weekly holidays in shops, restaurants and theatres

7.    Shops to be closed on five additional days every year

8.    No deduction or abatement to be made from wages

9.    Administration of Act

10.  Powers of Inspectors

11.  Penalties

12.  Exemption from application of this Act

13.  Power to exempt

14.  Rules

SCHEDULE

LAWS OF MALAYSIA

Act 220

WEEKLY HOLIDAYS ACT 1950

An Act to provide for  a weekly holiday for persons  employed in shops, restaurants and theatres.

[1 October 1951,L.N. 78/1951]

Short title and application

1.   (1)    This Act maybe cited as the Weekly Holidays Act 1950.

(2)    This Act shall apply to Peninsular Malaysia only.

Interpretation

2.   In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires–

“controlled  business”  means  any  one  or  more  of  the  following trades or businesses, namely, any retail trade or business (including retail sales by auction but not including the sale of programmes and catalogues   and   other   similar   sales   at   theatres   and   places   of amusement),  the  sale  of  intoxicating   liquor   under  licence,  the business  of a  pawnbroker,  barber,  hairdresser,  tailor,  laundryman, dry-cleaner  and  dyer  and  any  wholesale  business  declared  by  the Minister, by notification in the Gazette, to be a controlled business for the purposes of this Act;

“day” means a period of twenty-four hours beginning at midnight; “Director General” means the Director General of Labour;

“manager” means any person appointed to be in charge of or to manage a shop, theatre or restaurant;

“Peninsular   Malaysia”   has   the   meaning   assigned   thereto   in section 3 of the Interpretation Acts  1948  and  1967  [Act 388],  and includes the Federal Territory;

“proprietor” means the owner of the controlled business in any shop or the licensee of any theatre or restaurant;

“restaurant” means any premises in which is carried on principally or wholly the business  of supplying meals  or refreshments  to the public or a class of the public for consumption on the premises;

“shop” means all directly inter-connected premises or contiguous places used by any person for–

(a) exposing goods for sale as part of any controlled business carried on by him;

(b) the  storage,  preparation,  processing  or  manufacture  of goods, some or all of which are ordinarily disposed of in the course of any controlled business carried on by him; or

(c) any other purpose of a controlled business carried on by him,

or, where part only of any premises or places are so used, means that part:

Provided that the term “shop” shall not include a restaurant or any bazaar  for  charitable  or public purposes,  or  any  separate  room  or workshop used exclusively for the storage, preparation, processing or manufacture of goods which are of a description ordinarily disposed of in a substantial quantities otherwise than as part of the business of a controlled business;

“theatre” includes any premises intended principally or wholly for the presentation of moving pictures, dramatic performances or stage entertainment or for use as a dancehall;

“unassisted shop” means any shop in which the controlled business is carried on by the sole proprietor without assistance other than that of the husband, wife or one of the children of the proprietor;

“week” means the period between midnight on any Saturday night and midnight on the succeeding Saturday night.

Closing of shops

3.   (1)    Every shop not included in any class of shops mentioned in the Schedule shall remain entirely closed on either Friday or Sunday, as the proprietor or manager may choose, in each week, and every person employed therein shall be given a whole holiday on such day:

Provided that–

(a) an unassisted shop may remain open on both Friday and Sunday in each week on condition that on either Friday or Sunday in each week only the proprietor shall attend to the customers;

(b) the Director General may, upon application being made to him  in  that  behalf,  in  the  manner  prescribed,  by  the proprietor or the manager, give written permission in the case of any shop for some other day to be substituted in any particular week for the day chosen by such proprietor or manager and this subsection shall thereupon apply in the case of that shop to such day accordingly and not to the day of that week chosen; and

(c) the Director General may, upon application being made to him  in  that  behalf by  the  proprietor  or  manager,  give written permission that in any particular week a specified piece of work be performed in any shop on the day on which  that  shop,  in  accordance  with  this  subsection, would  otherwise  be   entirely  closed;  and  the  Director General shall, if he gives such written permission, specify a day in that particular week or in the week next following on which  all persons to be employed in  such  specified piece of work shall be given a whole holiday in lieu of the whole  holiday  which  they  would  otherwise  have  been given under this subsection.

(2)    The  proprietor  or  the manager  shall  specify in  a notice,  in such form as may be prescribed, the day in each week on which a shop is closed in pursuance of subsection (1) and shall exhibit such notice permanently in a conspicuous place in the shop.

(3)    The  day chosen by the proprietor or manager in accordance with subsection (1) shall not be altered by the proprietor or manager more often than once in six months.

(4)    The  proprietor  of  an  unassisted  shop  shall  specify  in  such notice as may be prescribed the day in each week on which he only will attend to customers as provided for in proviso of paragraph 1(a), and shall exhibit such notice permanently in a conspicuous place in such unassisted shop.

(5)    The  Minister may  from time to time, by notification in the Gazette add to, alter or amend the Schedule.

Provisions  relating  to  shops  where  more  than  one  business  is   carried on

4.   Where  several trades  or businesses  are carried  on in the  same shop, and any of those trades or businesses is of such a nature that if it were the only trade or business carried on in the shop, the shop would be exempt from the provisions of section 3, the exemption shall  apply to the  shop  so  far  as  the  carrying  on  of that  trade  or business is concerned, subject, however, to such conditions as maybe prescribed.

Additional half-day closing or holiday

5.   (1)    The Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, require in respect of all  shops  or  of any specified  class of shops other than unassisted shops and shops included in any class of shops mentioned in  the  Schedule  that  they  should  be  closed  at  such  hour  in  the afternoon of one day in every week in addition to the day provided for by section 3, as maybe specified in such notification.

(2)    When  any shop is closed under subsection (1) every person employed therein shall be given a holiday, in addition to any holiday given under  section  3,  6  or  7,  during  such  period  as  the  shop  is closed.

(3)    The  Minister  may, for the purposes of this  section,  specify different  hours  or  days  for  different  shops  or  different  classes  of shops or for different areas or for different times of the year.

(4)    The  proprietor  or  the manager  shall  specify in  a notice,  in such form as may be prescribed, the day in each week on which a shop is closed in pursuance of a requirement under subsection (1) and shall exhibit such notice permanently in a conspicuous place in the shop.

Weekly holidays in shops, restaurants and theatres

6.   (1)    Every   person   employed   in   any   shop,   other   than   an unassisted shop, in a class of shops mentioned in the Schedule, or in any restaurant or theatre shall be given in each week a holiday of one whole day:

Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to any person who works on less than six days and for less than forty hours in the week, such person being deemed to have worked on any day on which he has worked for a total period of not less than four hours.

(2)    The  Director  General  may,  by  notification  in  the  Gazette, exclude  any  particular  class  of  employee  from  the  operation  of subsection (1).

Shops to be closed on five additional days every year

7.   (1)    In  addition to those  other holidays prescribed by this Act, every shop, other than an unassisted shop or a shop included in any class of shops mentioned in the Schedule, shall be entirely closed on not less than five days every year, to be chosen by the proprietor or manager, and every person employed in any such shop shall be given a whole holiday on each such day.

(2)    The  proprietor  or  the manager  shall  specify in  a notice,  in such form as may be prescribed, the days chosen in accordance with subsection  (1)  and  shall  exhibit  such  notice  permanently  in  a conspicuous place in the shop.

(3)    In addition to the holidays required to be given by subsection 6(1) every person employed in a shop of a class mentioned in the Schedule or in any restaurant or theatre shall be given in every year a whole holiday on five other days to be chosen by the proprietor or manager.

(4)    If in  any  year  any of the days chosen by the proprietor or manager in compliance with subsection (1) is a day on which his shop is required to be entirely closed under section 3 then the day next following on which the shop would otherwise be opened shall be deemed to be a day chosen in compliance with subsection (1) and the shop shall be entirely closed on that day.

No deduction or abatement to be made from wages

8.   (1)    No  deductions  or  abatement  of the  wages  of any  person shall be made on account of any holiday given under section 3, 6 or 7.

(2)    A person who is given a holiday under section 5 shall be paid in respect of such holiday the wages he would have earned had he worked during that part of the day in which such holiday is given.

Administration of Act

9.   (1)    The  Director  General shall be the officer in charge of the general administration of this Act.

(2)    The  Director  General  may  either  generally  or  specifically direct any  State Director of Labour or Assistant  State  Director of Labour or, with the consent of the Minister, any other public officer to exercise, perform or discharge any power, duty or function of the Director  General  under   this  Act  or  under   any  regulation   made thereunder.

(3)    The  Yang   di-Pertuan  Agong  may,  by  notification   in  the Gazette, appoint persons to be Inspectors for the purposes of this Act within such local limits as he may assign.

(4)    Every Inspector appointed under this section shall be deemed to  be   a  public   servant  within  the  meaning   of  the   Penal  Code [Act 574].

(5)    The  Director  General  and  any  State  Director  of Labour  or Assistant  State Director  of Labour may exercise any or all of the powers of an Inspector.

Powers of Inspectors

10.  (1)Subject to any rules made under this Act by the Minister, an Inspector  may  at  any  reasonable  time,  within  the  local  limits  for which he is appointed–

(a) enter  and  remain  in  any  shop,  theatre  or  restaurant  to which this Act applies and in any quarter, house or other accommodation where persons who are employed in such premises live or sleep;

(b) make  such  examination  of  any  such   shop,  restaurant, theatre, quarter, house or other accommodation and of any record, register or notice maintained therein, in pursuance of rules made under subsection 14(2), and take on the spot or otherwise such evidence of any person as he may deem necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act.

(2)    Any  person  having  the  custody  of  any record,  register,  or notice maintained in pursuance of rules made under subsection  14(2) shall be bound to produce the same when so required by an Inspector, but no person  shall be  compellable to  answer  any question if the answer may tend directly or indirectly to incriminate himself.

Penalties

11.  In the event of any–

(a) contravention  of  section   3,   5,   6,  7  or  8  or  of  any requirement duly made thereunder;

(b) contravention of any rule made under paragraph  14(2)(a) or (c); or

(c) breach of any condition imposed under section 4,

the proprietor and the manager of the  establishment  in respect  of which such contravention or breach takes place shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine which may extend, in the case of the first offence, to two hundred and fifty ringgit, in the case of a second offence, to five hundred ringgit, and, in the case of a third offence or subsequent offence, to one thousand ringgit.

Exemption from application of this Act

12. Nothing in this Act shall apply to premises maintained by the Government solely for Post Office business.

Power to exempt

13.  The Minister may exempt from all or any of the provisions of this Act any premises or any class of premises.

Rules

14.  (1)   The Minister may make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act.

(2)    In  particular  and  without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may–

(a) prescribe  anything  required  to  be,  or  which  may  be prescribed under this Act;

(b) regulate the exercise of their powers and the discharge of their duties by Inspectors;

(c) require   registers   and   records   to   be   maintained   and prescribe the notices to be displayed in establishments to which this Act applies and the form and contents thereof and the manner in which such notices shall be displayed.

(3)    All  rules  made under this  section shall be published in the Gazette and shall be laid as soon as conveniently may be before the

Dewan  Rakyat  which  may,  by  resolution,   amend,   approve   or disapprove of the same. All rules approved by the Dewan Rakyat with such amendments, if any, as may have been made, shall come into force as from the date of the resolution approving the same.

SCHEDULE [Section 3]

(a)  Premises used for carrying on the retail sale of fuel from pumps, or of spare parts for vehicles, or for the repair, or servicing of vehicles.

(b)  Premises used for carrying on the business of undertakers in connection with funerals.

(c)  Premises  used   for  carrying   on  the  business   of  pharmacists,   chemists  or druggists.

(d)  Premises used for ships chandleries for the supply of victuals, stores or other necessities for a ship on her arrival in port or immediately before her departure.

(e)  Premises used for livery stables or garages.

(f)  Premises used for the business of any person or company producing ice by artificial means.

(g)  Premises used for the sale of newspapers or their delivery.

(h)  Premises used for the sale and delivery of fresh milk, cream, meat, fish, bread, fruit, vegetables or other foodstuffs of a perishable nature.

(i)  Premises used for the sale of intoxicating liquor as part of the business of a hotel or boardinghouse or as part of the amenities of a club.

(j)  Premises used for carrying on a controlled business and situated within–

(i)    any international airport; (ii)    any railway station;

(iii)    any hotel;

(iv)    any shopping arcade or shopping complex as may be approved

by the Minister on application.

(k)  Premises occupied by laundries, dry cleaners and dyers.

(l)  Premises situated within any Federal military establishment and used by any authorized person for carrying on a controlled business.

(m) Premises used for carrying on the retail sale of–

(i)    flowers and plants; or

(ii)    living creatures in pet shops, bird shops and other shops of a similar nature.

(n)  Premises   occupied   by   Supermarkets   and   Cold   Storages   carrying   on   a

controlled business as maybe approved by the Minister on application. (o)  Premises used for the sale and delivery of gas in cylinders as fuel.

(p)  Premises used for the sale of joss sticks, joss paper, candles and other religious or funeral requisites.

(q)  Premises used  for  exposing  goods  for  sale  in  connection  with  a  controlled business employing ten or more persons.

(r)  Premises  used  for  exposing  goods  for  sale  in  connection  with  a  controlled business carried on by a co-operative society registered under the *Cooperative Societies Ordinance 1948 [F.M.Ord. 33 of 1948].

*NOTE–Cooperative  Societies  Ordinance 1948 has   since  been  revised  as Cooperative Societies Act 1948 [Act 287] and later repealed by Cooperative Societies Act 1993 [Act 502] –see paragraph 95(1)(a) of Act 502.