{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shops-act-1950-repealed-1121994/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shops-act-1950-repealed-1121994/section-19.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/14/28",
  "legislation_title": "Shops Act 1950 (repealed 1.12.1994)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shops-act-1950-repealed-1121994",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Meal times.",
  "text": "(1) Intervals for meals shall be allowed to each shop assistant in accordance with Part I of the Third Schedule to this Act:\nProvided that this section shall not apply to a shop if the only persons employed as shop assistants are members of the family of the occupier of the shop, maintained by him and dwelling in his house.\n(2) In the case of any contravention of the provisions of this section, the occupier of a shop shall be liable to a fine not exceeding—\n(a) in the case of a first offence, level 1 on the standard scale;\n(b) in the case of a second offence, level 1 on the standard scale; and\n(c) in the case of a third or subsequent offence, level 1 on the standard scale.\nIn considering for the purposes of this subsection whether an offence is a first, second or subsequent offence, any offence under subsection (3) of section seventeen of this Act shall be treated as if it were an offence under this subsection.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted (E.W.S.) by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289G"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/14/28/section/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:18:55.840337+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}