Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

TRADING HOURS ACT 1962

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART I--PRELIMINARY

   1.      This Act may be cited as the Trading Hours Act 1962.1  
   2.      This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1963.  
   3.      The Trading Hours Ordinance 1926 and the Trading Hours Ordinance 1931 are repealed.  
   5.      (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears—“exempt goods” means—  
   6.      (1) The Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, declare that this Act shall not apply in a part of the Territory specified in the notice and, while the notice is in force, this Act does not apply in that part of the Territory.  

   PART II--HOURS FOR THE SALE OF GOODS

   7.      (1) This section does not apply to or in relation to the sale of—  
   8.      (1) A person shall not sell by auction goods—  
   9.      A shopkeeper, a person acting in the management of a shop or a person employed in a shop shall not deliver at the shop—  
   10.     (1) For the purposes of this Act, each Friday is, subject to this section, a late-shopping day in relation to a shop.  

   PART III--INSPECTORS

   11.     (1) There may be 1 or more inspectors for the purposes of this Act.  
   12.     (1) For the purposes of this Act, an inspector or a member of the Police Force of the Territory may at any time enter and inspect a shop or a place which he has reason to believe is used as a shop.  
   13.     An inspector who enters a shop or place for the purposes of this Act is not authorised to remain there if the inspector does not produce his or her identity card to the occupier on request.  

   PART IV--MISCELLANEOUS

   14.     A shopkeeper, a person acting in the management of a shop or a person employed in a shop shall not, by advertisement, notice or otherwise, state or indicate that he is prepared to sell goods in contravention of a provision of this Act.  
   15.     Where goods are sold in contravention of a provision of this Act, the shopkeeper and the person acting in management of the shop shall each be deemed to have committed an offence and each is punishable, upon conviction, by a fine not exceeding $200.  
   16.     Where it is an offence against a provision of this Act to sell goods at a shop on a day after an hour specified in the provision and a person is charged with an offence against the provision arising out of a sale of goods in contravention of the provision, it is a defence to the prosecution for the offence if the person charged satisfies the court before which he is charged—  
   17.     Where a shopkeeper or person apparently acting in the management of a shop is charged with an offence against a provision of this Act and the Court before which he is charged is satisfied that the act or omission constituting the offence was done or omitted to be done by another person, it is a defence to the charge if the person charged satisfies the court—  
   18.     The Executive may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.  
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