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SHOPS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1946 - SECT 34

Miscellaneous savings.

34.(1) Nothing in this Act shall prohibit the sale, despatch or delivery of
victuals, stores or other necessaries required by any person for a ship or
aircraft on her arrival at, or immediately before her departure from, her port
or aerodrome.

(2) Nothing in this Act shall apply 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 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).

(3) Nothing in this Act shall apply to the sale or delivery of eggs to, or the
collection of eggs by, a person licensed under the Marketing of Eggs Acts
(Northern Ireland), 1924 to 1936, to carry on business as a wholesale dealer
in eggs or as a retail dealer in eggs, being a sale or delivery to or
collection by such person made in the course of his trade so licensed as
aforesaid.

(4) The provisions of this Act, other than the provisions of sub-sections (5)
and (6) of section twenty-five of this Act, shall not apply with respect to
the employment of persons whose hours of employment are regulated by or under
the Factories Act (Northern Ireland), 1938.

(5) Where any person carries on the business of a shop, or carries on
retail trade or business at any place not being a shop, on Sunday in
accordance with the provisions of this Act, he shall not be deemed to commit
an offence against any of the following enactments, namely:

Para.(a) rep. by 1968 c.28 (NI) s.16 sch.4

(b)[the Sunday Observance Act (Ireland) 1695]

(6) This Act shall not apply to any sea-going ships.


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