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Shops (Hours of Trading) Act, 1938 (No. 3)Introductory TextAct Referred toPart I Preliminary and General (ss. 1-15)1. Short title and commencement.2. Definitions and interpretation.3. Public holidays.4. Provisions in relation to certain orders.5. Public inquiries.6. Penalties for offences.7. Offences by bodies corporate.8. Prosecution of offences.9. Powers of entry and investigation by members of the Gárda Síochána.10. Regulations.11. Laying of orders before Houses of the Oireachtas.12. Expenses.13. Repeals.14. Non-application of Act to certain fairs, bazaars, etc.15. Saving for sales to certain State authorities and for sale of stores for ships and aircraft.Part II Weekly Half-Holidays in Shops (ss. 16-20)16. Exempted businesses for purposes of Part II.17. Scheduled businesses for purposes oft Part II.18. "The weekly half-holiday".19. Closing of shops at 1 p.m. on weekly half-holidays.20. Retail trading elsewhere than in shops.Part III Hours of Trading on Weekdays (ss. 21-30)21. Definitions for purposes of Part III.22. Exempted businesses for the purposes of Part III.23. Scheduled businesses for purposes of Part III.24. Restricted application of Part III to certain shops.25. Hours of trading orders.26. Continuance in force of existing closing orders.27. Temporary suspension of hours of trading orders and existing closing orders.28. Application of different hours of trading orders and existing closing orders to a shop in which several businesses are carried on.29. Saving for provisions of Part II.30. Restriction on retail trading in places other than shops on weekdays.Part IV Sunday Trading (ss. 31-37)31. Exempted businesses for purposes of Part IV.32. Restricted application of Part IV to certain shops.33. Exempted areas.34. Sunday-trading (exempted area) orders.35. Hours of Sunday-trading (exempted businesses) orders.36. Restriction on Sunday trading.37. Retail Sunday trading in places other than shops.First Schedule Enactments RepealedSecond Schedule Businesses permanently excepted from Parts II, III and IV of this ActThird Schedule Exempted BusinessesThird Schedule, Part I Businesses for the time being exempted from Parts II, III and IV of this Act (paras. 1-6)Third Schedule, Part II Additional businesses for the time being exempted from Parts II and IV of this Act (para. 7)Third Schedule, Part III Additional business for the time being exempted from Part II of this Act (para. 8)
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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: No known changes
Version date: 16 May 1938 - onwards
Version 2 of 2

1. Short title and commencement.

(1) This Act may be cited as the Shops (Hours of Trading) Act, 1938.

(2) This Act shall come into operation on such day as shall be fixed for that purpose by order of the Minister either generally or with reference to any particular Part or provision and different days may be so fixed for different Parts and different provisions of this Act.

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