Shops (Hours of Trading) Act, 1938

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Restriction on Sunday trading.

36.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, it shall not be lawful for the proprietor of any shop (other than a shop situate in an exempted area or a shop in which the only business carried on therein is a scheduled business or all the businesses carried on therein are scheduled businesses) to keep such shop open at any time on Sunday for the serving of customers.

(2) If the proprietor of a shop acts in contravention to this section, such proprietor shall be guilty of an offence under this section.

(3) In this section the expression “scheduled business” means any business which either is an excepted business or is for the time being an exempted business for the purposes of this Part of this Act.