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SHOPS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1946 - SECT 2

Special provisions as to closing hours in relation to certain trades.

2.(1) The provisions of sub-sections (2) and (3) of this section shall,
subject to the provisions of section ten of this Act regarding mixed trading,
apply to any shop in which the sole business carried on is that of a
tobacconist, newsagent, fruiterer, confectioner, or vendor of table waters or
of any combination of any two or more of those trades and the provisions of
sub-section (2) of this section shall also apply to any shop in which the sole
business carried on is that of a pharmaceutical chemist or chemist and
druggist or druggist.

(2) In the case of any shop to which this sub-section applies the weekly
half-holiday shall be such day as the occupier of the shop may select and
specify in a notice affixed to the shop, but it shall not be lawful for the
occupier of the shop to change the weekly half-holiday oftener than once in
any period of three months, or to keep the shop open for the serving of
customers after one o'clock in the afternoon of such weekly half-holiday.

(3) In the case of any shop to which this sub-section applies, the shop shall
be closed for the serving of customers on the late day not later than nine
o'clock in the evening and on normal week days not later than eight o'clock in
the evening:

Provided that the [district council] may, if satisfied that the occupiers of
at least two-thirds in number of the shops to be affected so desire, by Order
substitute for the hour specified by this sub-section for the closing of the
shop on the late day or on the normal week days respectively, any other time
which in either case is not more than one hour earlier or later than the hour
specified by this sub-section.

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