Subject to sections 4, 4A, and 4B, every shop shall remain closed—

For the purposes of subsection (1)—

Section 3(1) does not apply to a shop if it is—

Section 3(1) does not apply to a shop in respect of its remaining closed at any time on any day if—

Section 3(1) does not apply to a shop on Easter Sunday if it is a garden centre, being a shop the sole or principal business of which is the sale of plants or garden supplies or both.

Section 3(1) does not apply to a shop on Easter Sunday if the shop is located in a district, or part of a district, in which a local Easter Sunday shop trading policy permits shops to open on Easter Sunday.

The occupier of a shop that is not closed in accordance with section 3 commits an offence against this Act, and is liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding $1,000.

For the purposes of subsection (1),—

In any proceedings for an offence against this Act,—

The following enactments are hereby repealed:

Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s)

Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s).

Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s).

Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s).

Every—

is hereby consequentially revoked.

The Shop Trading Hours (Approved Goods Extension) Notice 1990 is hereby consequentially revoked.

The Shop Trading Hours Commission established by section 4(1) of the repealed Act is hereby abolished.

On the commencement of this Act,—

In this section, and (both as part of this Act and when deemed by this section to have been inserted into any industrial document) in the provisions set out in Schedule 1, unless the context otherwise requires,—

In any provision deemed by this section to have been inserted in any industrial document, the term shop, unless the context otherwise requires, has the meaning assigned to it by section 2.

After the commencement of this Act, the protective provisions shall be deemed to have been inserted into every existing document (but in such a way as to apply only to the shop workers to whom the document applies).

Subject to subsections (5) and (6), where any of the protective provisions has been deemed by this section to have been inserted into an industrial document, that provision shall be deemed to have been inserted into any subsequent document negotiated under the Labour Relations Act 1987 (but in such a way as to apply only to the shop workers to whom the subsequent document applies).

Where any of the protective provisions has been deemed by this section to have been inserted into an industrial document, that provision may—

in any subsequent document negotiated under the Labour Relations Act 1987 be declared to have been omitted from the subsequent document; and in that case the provision shall not thereafter be deemed by subsection (4) to have been inserted into the subsequent document or any further subsequent document.

Where any of the protective provisions has been deemed by this section to have been inserted into an industrial document, there may—

be contained in a subsequent document a provision declared (in the provision itself or another provision of the document) to be the protective provision in an amended form; and in that case the protective provision concerned shall not thereafter be deemed by subsection (4) to have been inserted into the subsequent document or any further subsequent document (whether in its original form or in any amended form).

To every industrial document into which any protective provisions are deemed by subsection (4) to have been inserted there shall be attached an annex, numbered in accordance with Schedule 1,—

An annex attached to an industrial document pursuant to subsection (7) is not part of the document.

Where provisions are deemed by this section to have been inserted into an industrial document,—

No mandatory opening provision in a lease, licence, contract, covenant, or agreement, entered into or made before 12 November 1980 shall so be construed as to require the opening of any shop at any time on a Saturday, unless the shop was on 11 November 1980 entitled to be open at that time by virtue of an authority or order under section 13(2), section 15, or section 20 of the repealed Act.

No mandatory opening provision in a lease, licence, contract, covenant, or agreement, entered into or made before 1 August 1990 shall so be construed as to require the opening of any shop at any time—

unless the shop was, on 31 July 1990, entitled to be open at that time by virtue of an authority or order under section 13(2), section 15, section 17A, or section 20, of the repealed Act.

A mandatory opening provision in a lease, licence, contract, covenant, or agreement entered into, or made before, the commencement of the Shop Trading Hours Act Repeal Amendment Act 2001 must not be interpreted as requiring a shop to which section 4A applies to open on Easter Sunday.

Subsection (2A) does not apply to a shop that, before the commencement of the Shop Trading Hours Act Repeal Amendment Act 2001, was entitled to be open on Easter Sunday under section 4.

A mandatory opening provision in a lease, licence, contract, covenant, or agreement that was entered into or made before the commencement of the Shop Trading Hours Amendment Act 2016 must not be interpreted as requiring a shop to which section 4B applies to open on Easter Sunday.

Subsection (2C) does not apply to a shop that, before the commencement of the Shop Trading Hours Amendment Act 2016, was entitled to open on Easter Sunday under section 4 or 4A.

In this section, mandatory opening provision, in relation to a shop, means a provision—

Every prosecution under the repealed Act initiated by an information laid before 1 August 1990 shall proceed as if section 6 of this Act had not been enacted.

Every prosecution under section 5 initiated by an information laid before the commencement of the Shop Trading Hours Act Repeal Amendment Act 2001 must proceed as if that Act had not been enacted.