Talk:Sunday Trading Act 1994

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I just deleted this paragraph:

Buying and selling on Sunday had been banned in the UK by the Shops Act 1950, but after the accession of the UK to the European Economic Community, the ban may have been in breach of Article 30 of the Treaty of Rome as amounting to an unlawful restraint on the free movement of goods.

...because it's a typically stupid stupid Europhobic lie.  Wik idea  22:34, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

previous exceptions?
I do remember that there were some shops allowed to open on sundays prior to December 1994 but could never figure out which ones and why. There were of course the usal newsagents style corner shops and some markets, but there were also exceptions and perhaps loopholes. E.g. the record shops on Oxford street were closed on sundays but the then Tower records in Bayswater and the HMV at Trocadero were open, as were some shops around Covent Garden. I do belive this was for tourist hotspots but the boroughs or who ever was responsible for permissions had very different opinions what should be allowed. On the other hand many museums had to close their shops in those times so that the exit-through-the-giftshop schemes only came up after the law changed.92.200.131.80 (talk) 10:33, 4 June 2022 (UTC)