SHOPS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1946 - SECT 33 Application to Post Office business.

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SHOPS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1946 - SECT 33

Application to Post Office business.

33.(1) Where Post Office business is carried on in any shop in addition to any
other business, this Act shall apply to that shop subject to the following
modifications:

(a)if the shop is a telegraph office the obligation to close the shop for the
serving of customers on the weekly half-holiday shall not apply to the shop so
far as relates to the transaction of Post Office business thereat;

Para.(b) rep. by 1966 c.26 (NI) s.82 sch.2; 1969 c.48 s.141 sch.11 Pt.II

(c)nothing in this Act or in any order made under this Act shall prevent the
transaction of Post Office business in a shop after the closing hour in any
week day;

(d)notwithstanding anything in this Act a shop may be open on Sunday for the
transaction of Post Office business.

(2) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to authorise any person to carry
on any retail trade or business other than Post Office business during such
times as it would not be lawful for him to do so under the other provisions of
this Act.

(3) Save as aforesaid, nothing in this Act shall apply to Post Office
business, or to any premises in which Post Office business is transacted.

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SHOPS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1946 - SECT 33