Trading Hours Act 1962 (ACT)

Trading Hours Act 1962 (repealed)

A1962-19

Republication No 3

Effective:  10 September 1996

Republication date: 13 November 2008

As repealed by A1996-40 sch

Unauthorised version prepared by ACT Parliamentary Counsel's Office

About this republication

The republished law

This is a republication of the Trading Hours Act 1962 (repealed) effective 10 September 1996.

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trading hours act 1962

This consolidation has been prepared by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel’s Office

Repealed by No. 40, 1996 (in force 9 September 1996)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Section

part i—preliminary

1.Short title

2.Commencement

3.Repeal

5.Interpretation

6.Application of Act

Part II—Hours for the Sale of Goods

7.Goods other than exempt goods, and goods sold by auction

8.Goods sold by auction

9.Delivery of goods at shop

1. Late-shopping days

Part III—Inspectors

1. Inspectors

11A.Identity cards

1. Powers of inspectors and members of Police Force

2. Production of identity cards

Part IV—Miscellaneous

1. Advertisements

2. Shopkeepers and managers of shops

3. Defence where goods sold after hours

4. Defence where act done by another person

5. Regulations

Schedule

Exempt Goods

trading hours act 1962

An Act relating to Trading Hours

Part I—Preliminary

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Trading Hours Act 1962.1

Commencement

2.  This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1963.

Repeal

3.  The Trading Hours Ordinance 1926 and the Trading Hours Ordinance 1931 are repealed.

Interpretation

5.  (1)  In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears—

“exempt goods” means—

(a)goods specified in the Schedule; or

(b)goods included in a class of goods specified in the Schedule;

“inspector” means an inspector under section 11;

“late-shopping day”, in relation to a shop, means a day that is, in accordance with section 10, a late-shopping day in relation to the shop;

“public holiday”, in relation to the Territory or a part of the Territory, means a day that is observed as a public holiday in the Territory or in the part of the Territory by virtue of the Holidays Act 1958;

“shop” means a place, building, stall or tent in which—

(a)goods are sold or exposed for sale; or

(b)goods are received for servicing or repair;

“shopkeeper” means a person who directly or indirectly, as principal, occupies a shop;

“week” means the period of 7 days commencing on a Sunday;

“week-day” means a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday that is not a public holiday.

(2)  Where goods are exposed for sale in a part of a building that is separated from the remainder of the building by a substantial partition, that part of the building shall be deemed to be a shop for the purposes of this Act.

Application of Act

6.  (1)  The Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, declare that this Act shall not apply in…