Shop Trading Reform (Essential Goods Amendment) Act 2003 (Vic)

Shop Trading Reform (Essential Goods

Amendment) Act 2003

Act No. 5/2003

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Section Page

1.	Purpose	1
2.	Commencement	2
3.	Amendment of section 4	2

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Victoria

No. 5 of 2003

Shop Trading Reform (Essential Goods

Amendment) Act 2003†

[Assented to 15 April 2003]

The Parliament of Victoria enacts as follows:

1. Purpose

The purpose of this Act is to amend the Shop

Trading Reform Act 1996—

(a)	to provide for a further category of exempt shops; and
(b)	to allow chemists' shops, petrol shops and certain other shops selling essential goods to trade irrespective of the number of persons employed in the shops.

Shop Trading Reform (Essential Goods Amendment) Act 2003

Act No. 5/2003 s. 2

2. Commencement

This Act comes into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3. Amendment of section 4

See:

(1) After section 4(1) of the Shop Trading Reform	Act No.
Act 1996 insert—	119/1993. Reprint No. 1
"(1A) A shop is also an exempt shop if the	as at 19 September

predominant business carried on in the shop	1996
is of a prescribed kind.	and amending

(1B) The Minister may only recommend the Act Nos
86/1998 and

making of Regulations prescribing a kind of	1/2003.
business for the purposes of sub-section (1A)	LawToday:
if the business is one of selling goods that, in	dpc.vic.
the opinion of the Minister, are essential	gov.au
goods.".

(2) After section 4(3) of the Shop Trading Reform

Act 1996 insert—

"(4) Sub-section (2) does not apply to—

(a) a chemist shop; or

(b) a petrol shop; or

(c) a shop in which a business of a kind prescribed for the purposes of sub- section (1A) is carried on.".

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Shop Trading Reform (Essential Goods Amendment) Act 2003

Endnotes	Act No. 5/2003
ENDNOTES

†

Minister's second reading speech—

Legislative Council: 10 April 2003

Legislative Assembly: 10 April 2003

The long title for the Bill for this Act was "to amend the Shop Trading Reform Act 1996 with respect to trading by certain shops and for other purposes."