# Shops Act 1950 (repealed 1.12.1994), Section 4: Special provision for tobacco and smokers’ requisites.

Extent: E+W+S

As respects the trade or business of selling tobacco and smokers’ requisites—
(a) . . . . . .
(b) a local authority may, in their area, or in any part thereof, by order substitute for the hours fixed by paragraph (b) of the said subsection (1) later hours, not being later than ten o’clock in the evening on the late day or half past nine o’clock in the evening on any other day, if they are satisfied that such an order is desired by the occupiers of at least two-thirds in number of the shops to be affected by the order.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/14/28/section/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/shops-act-1950-repealed-1121994/section-4
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