The Shops Act 1950 was an

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which was repealed on 1 December 1994 by the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994. The introductory text describes it as "An Act to consolidate the Shops Acts, 1912 to 1938, and certain other enactments relating to shops.". The Act dealt with hours of closing (not hours of opening), half-day holidays, employment conditions and with Sunday trading in

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Extent

The Act did not extend to Northern Ireland. Part IV of the Act (Sunday Closing) did not extend to Scotland.

Exemptions

The Shops (Airports) Act 1962 is an

which makes exemptions of the Shops Act 1950 for

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rs conducting business in airports. These exemptions apply to shops that are in airports, other than those not ordinarily accessible by those travelling to or from the airport by air, and exempts them from the provisions in Part 1 of the Shops Act 1950 regarding closing times. The Act was later repealed by the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 alongside the Shops Act 1950.

Repeals

The following Acts were entirely repealed by this Act: *

Shops Act 1912 Shop or shopping refers to: Business and commerce * A casual word for a commercial establishment or for a place of business * Machine shop, a workshop for machining *"In the shop", referring to a car being at an automotive repair shop *A wood ...

Shops Act 1913 Shop or shopping refers to: Business and commerce * A casual word for a commercial establishment or for a place of business * Machine shop, a workshop for machining *"In the shop", referring to a car being at an automotive repair shop *A wood ...

Shops (Hours of Closing) Act 1928 Shop or shopping refers to: Business and commerce * A casual word for a commercial establishment or for a place of business * Machine shop, a workshop for machining *"In the shop", referring to a car being at an automotive repair shop *A wood ...

* Hairdressers' and Barbers' Shops (Sunday Closing) Act 1930 *

Shops Act 1934 Shop or shopping refers to: Business and commerce * A casual word for a commercial establishment or for a place of business * Machine shop, a workshop for machining *"In the shop", referring to a car being at an automotive repair shop *A wood ...

Shops Act 1936 Shop or shopping refers to: Business and commerce * A casual word for a commercial establishment or for a place of business * Machine shop, a workshop for machining *"In the shop", referring to a car being at an automotive repair shop *A wood ...

Retail Meat Dealers' Shops (Sunday Closing) Act 1936 Retail is the sale of goods and Service (economics), services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is sale to business or institutional customers. A retailer purchases goods in large quantities from manufacturing, manufacturers, dire ...

Shops (Sunday Trading Restriction) Act 1936 Shop or shopping refers to: Business and commerce * A casual word for a commercial establishment or for a place of business * Machine shop, a workshop for machining *"In the shop", referring to a car being at an automotive repair shop *A wood ...

The following Acts were partially repealed by this Act: *

Factories Act 1937 The Factory Acts were a series of acts passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom to regulate the conditions of industrial employment. The early Acts concentrated on regulating the hours of work and moral welfare of young children employed ...

(in section ninety-eight, subsection (6)) *

Young Persons (Employment) Act 1938 Young may refer to: * Offspring, the product of reproduction of a new organism produced by one or more parents * Youth, the time of life when one is young, often meaning the time between childhood and adulthood Music * The Young, an American ro ...

(Sections eight, eleven, twelve and thirteen) * National Health Service Act 1946 (In the Tenth Schedule, the amendments of the Shops (Sunday Trading Restriction) Act 1936)

References

{{Reflist United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1950