Statistics Regulations 1913 (Provisional)
Part 5Shopkeepers.
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Part 5.—Shopkeepers.
Information to be supplied by shopkeepers.
13.—(1) The owner of any shop or premises at which any of the articles specified in Forms M, N, O, and P are sold by retail shall, within such time or times as he may be required by the Statistician so to do, furnish each month to the Statistician the particulars set out in the prescribed form of return which relates to the articles sold by him.
(2) In order to comply with this Regulation, the owner of the shop shall fill in each month the required particulars in the prescribed form, in accordance with the instructions contained in or accompanying the prescribed form, so far as those particulars include articles of the kind sold in the shop, and shall sign the form and transmit it, either by post or otherwise, to the Statistician.
(3) In this Regulation—
“owner” includes the manager or person for the time being in charge of a shop; and
“shop” includes any store, van, vessel, or place in or from which articles of any kind specified in the prescribed form are sold.