{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shops-act-1950-repealed-1121994/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shops-act-1950-repealed-1121994/section-3.json",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  "legislation_title": "Shops Act 1950 (repealed 1.12.1994)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shops-act-1950-repealed-1121994",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/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "The late day.",
  "text": "The late day referred to in the last foregoing section shall be Saturday unless the local authority by order fix some other week day as the late day, and any such order may fix the same day for all shops or may fix—\n(a) different days for different classes of shops;\n(b) different days for different parts of their area; or\n(c) different days for different periods of the year:\n. . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 3 substituted (E.W.) (26.8.1994) by 1994 c. 20, s. 5(2); S.I. 1994/1841, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 3 proviso repealed by Shops (Early Closing Days) Act 1965 (c. 35), s. 4(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision extends to England and Wales only; a separate version has been created for Scotland only"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/14/28/section/3",
    "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."
}