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Shops Act 1950
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7Certain provisions as to general closing hours to be temporary
(1)The provisions of this Act relating to general closing hours which have effect only as respects the winter months shall expire on the tenth day of December, nineteen hundred and fifty:
Provided that—
(a)His Majesty may at any time by Order in Council revoke the said provisions either in whole or in part and any such Order in Council shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament;
(b)if at any time while the said provisions are in force, an Address is presented to His Majesty by each House of Parliament praying that those provisions should be continued in force for a further period not exceeding one year from the time at which they would otherwise expire, His Majesty may by Order in Council direct that those provisions shall continue in force for that further period.
(2)The Supplies and Services (Transitional Powers) Act, 1945, shall apply as if the said provisions were a Defence Regulation to which section one of that Act applies.
(3)Subsection (2) of section thirty-eight of the Interpretation Act, 1889, shall apply upon the expiry of the said provisions as if they were an Act of Parliament and had then been repealed.
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