Shops Act 1950 (repealed 1.12.1994)

48 Partial exemption orders.E+W

(1)The local authority may by order (in this Part of this Act referred to as a “partial exemption order”) made in accordance with the provisions of this Part of this Act provide that shops situated in their area or in such part thereof as is specified in the order may for the purposes of such of the transactions mentioned in the Sixth Schedule to this Act as may be so specified be open for the serving of customers on Sunday subject to the limitations hereafter provided.

(2)A partial exemption order shall not authorise a shop to be open for the serving of customers after ten o’clock on Sunday morning:

Provided that an order may authorise the serving of customers after ten o’clock on Sunday morning in shops to which the order applies in cases of emergency and in such other cases as may be specified in the order.

(3)A partial exemption order may contain such incidental, supplemental or consequential provisions as may appear to the local authority necessary or proper.