# Shops Act 1950 (repealed 1.12.1994), Section 6: Special provision for confectionery.

Extent: E+W+S

As respects the trade or business of selling table waters, sweets, chocolates or other sugar confectionery or ice cream, the following hours shall be substituted for those set out in subsection (1) of section two of this Act, that is to say—
(a) . . . . . .
(b) . . . . . . ten o’clock in the evening on the late day and half past nine o’clock in the evening on any other day:
Provided that a local authority may in their area or any part thereof by order substitute for either of the hours mentioned in paragraph (b) of this subsection an earlier hour, not being earlier than eight o’clock in the evening, if they are satisfied that such an order is desired by the occupiers of a majority of the shops to be affected by the order.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/14/28/section/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/shops-act-1950-repealed-1121994/section-6
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