{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shops-act-1950-repealed-1121994/section-45",
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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  "legislation_title": "Shops Act 1950 (repealed 1.12.1994)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shops-act-1950-repealed-1121994",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/45",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": "Exemption for fairs, etc., and non-profit-making libraries.",
  "text": "Nothing in Part I or section seventeen, nineteen, twenty-one or section thirty-seven of this Act shall apply—\n(a) to any fair lawfully held or any bazaar or sale of work for charitable or other purposes from which no private profit is derived; or\n(b) to any library at which the business of lending books or periodicals is not carried on for purposes of gain other than that of making profits for some philanthropic or charitable object (including any religious or educational object), or for any club or institution which is not itself carried on for purposes of gain.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Employment Act 1989 (c. 38, SIF 43:1), s. 29(3), Sch. 6 para. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963 (c. 41), Sch. 2 which repeal remains prospective in relation to certain premises in a covered market as referred to in art. 2 of S.I. 1964/191"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 45 extended by Shops (Early Closing Days) Act 1965 (c. 35), s. 5(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/14/28/section/45",
    "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."
}