Shops (Hours of Trading) Act, 1938

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Retail Sunday trading in places other than shops.

37.—(1) The provisions of this Part of this Act shall extend to any place where or vehicle from which any retail trade or business is carried on as if that place or vehicle were a shop and as if in relation to any such place or vehicle the person by whom the retail trade or business is carried on were the proprietor of a shop.

(2) Nothing in this section shall—

(a) be construed as rendering unlawful the attendance of a barber or hairdresser on a customer in the customer's residence or the holding of an auction sale of private effects in a private dwelling house, or

(b) apply to the sale of newspapers.