(c) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against any enactments hereby repealed; or

(d) any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty forfeiture, or punishment as aforesaid, and any such investigation legal proceeding and remedy may be carried on as if this Act had not passed;

or

(e) any act in which the enactments hereby repealed have been applied, incorporated or referred to.

(5.) This repeal shall not revive any enactment, right, office, privilege, matter or thing not in force or existing at the passing of this Act.

6th March 1839... An Act to amend the Laws relating to marriage in The whole Act ex

28th March 1860... A Declarative Act relating to marriage licences. The whole Act.

7th February 1887. An Act to amend "The Civil Marriage Act 1885." The whole Act.

CAP, XXI.

(Assented to 28th March 1891.)

BARBADOS.

An Act to consolidate and amend the Acts of this Island relating to closing of shops.

BE

E it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly of this Island, and by the authority of the same as follows:

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as "The Shops (Closing) Act, 1891."

Closing at night.

2. (1) All shops in any part of this Island wherein rum or other spirituous or strong liquors closed at 9 Shops for sale of liquors or any other article or thing what- o'clock at night exsoever shall or may be sold or retailed shall cept Saturdays, be shut up and closed by nine o'clock at when closed at ten, night and shall not be opened before six o'clock in the morning: except on Saturdays when all such shops shall be shut up and closed by ten o'clock at night.

(2.) Nothing in this section contained shall extend or be construed to extend to druggists shops as regards the sale of drugs and other medicines.

Closing on Sundays, &c.

Section not to extend to druggist

shops.

Every person who

3. (1) No person shall expose for sale or cause or procure to be exposed for sale, or exposes for sale, shall sell or purchase or cause to be sold or sells, or purchases any articles on Sunpurchased, any goods, chattels, wares, mer- day liable to chandize, or other articles whatsoever, on penalty not exceedany Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday, or ing two pounds. other day set apart by public proclamation

for divine service.

a

Cases excepted from the operation

of the Act.

Penalty for breach of section.

Within what time

(2) There shall be excepted from the operation of this section,

(1) the sale or purchase of any drugs or
medicines,

(2) the sale or purchase of bread, fresh
fish, butchers' meat, or ice, not later
than nine o'clock in the morning,
(3) the sale or purchase of milk not
later than nine o'clock in the morning
and between the hours of three
o'clock and six o'clock in the after-
noon,

(4) the sale or purchase of cooked food
in hotels, inns, or taverns,
(5) the sale or purchase of any article
required in cases of illness, of any
person or animal where the seller
thereof has reasonable grounds for
believing such article to be required
for either of those purposes-the
reasonableness whereof is to be de-
termined by the police magistrate
before whom any complaint is heard.

Penalties.

4. (1) Every person offending against either of the provisions of this Act shall be lia ble to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings, to be recovered in a summary manner before a police magistrate on the complaint of any person, and paid one half to the com plainant, and the residue into the public treasury for public uses.

(2.) All complaints under this Act shall offences to be prose- be preferred within one month of the date of the commission of the offences complained against.

cuted.

Repeal.

5. The several Acts mentioned in the

schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned provided that

(1.) Any enactment or document referring to any Act or enactment hereby repealed shall be construed to refer to this Act or to the corresponding enactment in this Act. (2.) This repeal shall not affect (a) The past operation of any enactment hereby repealed nor any thing duly done or suffered under any enactment hereby repealed; or

(b) any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under any enactment hereby repealed; or

(c) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against any enactment hereby repealed; or

(d) any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty forfeiture, or punishment as aforesaid; and any such investigation, legal proceeding and remedy may be carried on as if this Act had not passed; or

(e) any act in which the enactments hereby repealed have been applied, incorporated or referred to

(3.) This repeal shall not revive any enactment, right, office, privilege, matter or thing not in force or existing at the passing of this Act.