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Shops Act 1950 (repealed 1.12.1994)
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1 Closing of shops on weekly half-holiday. E+W+S
(1)Every shop shall be closed for the serving of customers not later than one o’clock in the afternoon on one week day in every week.
(2), (3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1
(4)Where the local authority have reason to believe that a majority of the occupiers of shops of any particular class in any area are in favour of being exempted from the provisions of this section, . . . . . . F2 the local authority, unless they consider that the area in question is unreasonably small, shall take steps to ascertain the wishes of such occupiers.
If the local authority are satisfied that a majority of the occupiers of such shops are in favour of the exemption, or, in the case of a vote being taken, that at least one half of the votes recorded by the occupiers of shops within the area of the class in question are in favour of the exemption, the local authority shall make an order exempting the shops of that class within the area from the provisions of this section . . . . . . F2
(5)Where a shop is closed during the whole day on the occasion of a bank holiday, and that day is not the day fixed for the [F3early closing day], it shall be lawful for the occupier of the shop to keep the shop open for the serving of customers after the hour at which it is required under this section to be closed either on the [F3early closing day] immediately preceding, or on the [F3early closing day] immediately succeeding, the bank holiday.
(6)This section shall not apply to any shop in which the only trade or business carried on is trade or business of any of the classes mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act, . . . . . . F4
(7)Nothing in this section shall prevent the serving of a customer at any time at which the shop is required to be closed under this section if it is proved either that the customer was in the shop before the time when the shop was required to be closed, or that there was reasonable ground for believing that the article supplied to the customer was required in the case of illness.
(8)Nothing in this section shall prevent customers from being served at a time when the shop in which they are served is required to be closed with victuals, stores, or other necessaries for a ship, on her arrival at, or immediately before her departure from, a port.
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F2Words repealed by Shops (Early Closing Days) Act 1965 (c. 35), s. 2(1)
F3Words substituted by virtue of Shops (Early Closing Days) Act 1965 (c. 35), s. 3
F4Words repealed by Shops (Early Closing Days) Act 1965 (c. 35), s. 2(2)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 1 extended by Shops (Early Closing Days) Act 1965 (c. 35), ss. 1(2)-(4), 4(2)
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