Letter from George Chrystal to Andrew Philip Magill, 14 April 1916 Letters 1916-1923 George Chrystal

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The letter is from George Chrystal of the Home Office in London to Andrew Philip Magill (1871-1941), private secretary to the Chief Secretary for Ireland (Augustine Birrell). The letter encloses an amended order of a regulation under the Defence of the Realm Act regarding a weekly half-holiday for employees in the liquor industry. The Defence of the Realm Act was passed in 1914 for the United Kingdom to give the government extensive powers during the Great War.

 National Archives of Ireland CSO RP/1916/6821/2/3 https://letters1916.ie/item/4618 English George Chrystal 1916-04-14 Home Office, Whitehall, London, England Andrew Philip Magill Male Industry and Public Administration Industry and Public Administration

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 14th April, 1916. Dear Magill, With reference to my note of 25th Februaryforwarding a copy of a Regulation under the Defence of theRealm Act about weekly half-holidays for liquor tradeemployees, I now send you a copy of an amended Order onthe same subject, together with the accompanying Home Office Circularto the Local Authorities, which explain themselves. Yours sincerely, George Chrystal A.P. Magill Esq. AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE, The 30th day of March, 1916. PRESENT: THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL. WHEREAS by an Order in Council dated the tenth day of June, nineteen hundred and fifteen, His Majesty was pleased to make Regulations (called the Defence of the Realm (Liquor Control) Regulations, 1915) under the Defence of the Realm Consolidation Act, 1914, and to issue the same in pursuance of the Defence of the Realm Amendment (No. 3) Act, 1915, to take effect in any area to which they should be applied under the said Amendment Act. And whereas His Majesty have been pleased to apply the said Regulations and any Regulations amending the same to divers areas by Orders in Council made under the said Amend- ment Act: And whereas the said Regulations have been amended by Orders in Council dated the fourteenth day of October, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and the fifteenth day of February, nineteen hundred and sixteen: And whereas it is expedient further to amend the said Regulations in manner hereinafter appearing: NOW, THEREFORE, His Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered as follows:— The said Order in Council of the fifteenth day of February, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby revoked, and for the paragraph which by that Order was directed to be inserted at the end of Regulation 2 the following paragraph shall be substituted: "Where by an Order of the Board the sale of intoxicating liquor in licensed premises in any area is 42—2 (2)restricted to a total of five and a half hours a day, orless, the weekly half-holiday required to be given to theassistants employed in such premises under section 1 ofthe Shops Act, 1912, may in the case of assistants whoseemployment is wholly or mainly in connection with thesale of intoxication liquor, begin not later than threeinstead of half-past one o'clock in the afternoon, but thisprovision shall not apply to any licensed premises inwhich any such assistant is employed for more thensixty-five hours in any week exclusive of meal times. 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