Shops (Hours of Trading) Act, 1938

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Restricted application of Part IV to certain shops.

32.—(1) Neither this Part of this Act nor any Sunday-trading (exempted area) order nor any hours of Sunday-trading (exempted businesses) order shall apply to any shop in which either the only business carried on therein is an excepted business or all the businesses carried on therein are excepted businesses.

(2) Where—

(a) any excepted business is carried on in a shop, and

(b) any other business (not being an excepted business) is carried on in such shop,

nothing contained in this Part of this Act or in any Sunday trading (exempted area) order or any hours of Sunday-trading (exempted businesses) order shall render it unlawful for the proprietor of such shop to keep such shop open for the serving of customers at any time on Sunday, if while such shop is so kept open no transaction (other than a transaction connected with such excepted business) is carried out therein.