No shop in England and Wales shall open on Sunday, except in a few trades which are to be exempt, and a few others in which exemption orders may be made, if a Bill which has been introduced into the House of Commons by Sir Frank Sanderson (Conservative) with the support of Sir Herbert Nield, Sir Arthur Shirley Benn, and Colonel Freemantle (Conservative). Mr. Ammon (Labor), Mr. Robert Morrison (Co-operative), and Major Crawfurd (Liberal) is passed.
The exempted trades are for the sale of intoxicants, refreshments for consumption on premises, motor-cycle and aircraft supplies, newspapers and periodicals, medicines. Trades for which exemption orders might be made are: Bakers and confectioners, butchers, chemists, dairymen, fishmongers, green-grocers, fruiterers and florists, grocers, sweetstuff sellers, tobacconists.
Most of these, if granted exemption, would be allowed to open only from 8 a. m. to 10 a. m., but dairymen would have from 7.30 a. m. to 9.30 a. m., and sweet shops and tobacconists from 6 p. m. to 8 p. m., in addition to the two morning hours.
Trading elsewhere than in shops would be prohibited. The penalties provided are: 1st offense £2,3rd or subsequent offense £10.
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