WHOLESALE AND RETAIL TRADES WAGES COUNCIL ġ S.L.452.13 1
SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 452.13
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL TRADES 
WAGES COUNCIL ORDER
19th August, 1955
GOVERNMENT NOTICE 430 of 1955, as amended by Legal Notice 2 of
1989
Title.
Council Order.
Field of operation 
of Wages Council.
2. The Wholesale and Retail Trades Wages Council shall
operate for all employees engaged in the wholesale, retail and
ancillary trades.
Interpretation.
Amended by:
L.N. 2 of 1989.
3. The term "wholesale, retail and ancillary trades" means -
( a )  wholesale merchants, distributors, importers,
exporters, commission agents, wholesale and
marketing cooperatives;
( b ) retailers, lending libraries, auctioneers, hairdressers,
consumers’ cooperatives, photographic studios;
but excludes any shop which is run directly under the management
of a hotel or of a club as part of the amenities thereof or which is
given out under contract for the purpose of increasing those
amenities.
Exclusion.
and foremen of port workers even though employed by employers
who would otherwise fall to be treated as being within the field of
operation of the Council.
Date of publication 
of notice of 
intention.
5. Notice of intention to make this Order but with a wider
field of operation was published in the Gazette of the 9th October,
1953. 
