{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shops-act-1950-repealed-1121994/section-2",
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  "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  "legislation_title": "Shops Act 1950 (repealed 1.12.1994)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shops-act-1950-repealed-1121994",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/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "General closing hours.",
  "text": "(1) Every shop shall be closed for the serving of customers—\n(a) . . . . . .\n(b) . . . . . . not later than nine o’clock in the evening on the late day and eight o’clock in the evening on any other day of the week:\n. . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Nothing in this section shall prevent—\n(a) the serving of a customer where it is proved that the customer was in the shop before the closing hour, or that reasonable grounds existed for believing that the article supplied after the closing hour to a customer was required in the case of illness; or\n(b) any transaction mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Act.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 2(1)(a) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c. 22), Sch. Pt. X"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c. 22), Sch. Pt. X"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 2(1) proviso repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c. 22), Sch. Pt. X"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Ss. 2(2), 2(4), 5, 7, 8(6) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c. 22), Sch. Pt. X"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/14/28/section/2",
    "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."
}