- Enforced by
- Local Authority
- Status
- Amended (in force with amendments)
- Penalty ceiling
- Prosecution 1 of 2 obligations carry a fine up to £1,000. 1 has no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Employer1
Any Person1
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Employer — also bound by 701 other Acts
TULRCA 1992
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Any Person — also bound by 2684 other Acts
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104 duties
Communications Act 2003
92 duties
Road Traffic Act 1988
92 duties
What it requires
Sections creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.
12 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.art003
Large shops not to open on Sunday except in accordance with Articles 4, 5 and 6
s.art004
Exemption for certain kinds of large shop
s.art005
Permitted Sunday opening hours for large shops
s.art006
Additional permitted Sunday opening for large shops in holiday resorts
s.art007
Loading and unloading at large shops on Sunday morning
s.art008
Enforcement
s.art009
Offences
s.art010
Construction of certain leases and agreements
s.art011
Rights of shop workers as respects Sunday working
s.art012
Exclusion of Sunday Observance Act (Ireland) 1695
s.art013
Repeal of provisions of the Shops Act (Northern Ireland) 1946
s.art014
Amendments and repeals
Schedules
Schedules
2 of 24 shown
s.sch001
A person who contravenes paragraph 2 shall be guilty of an offence and liable on...
Prosecution
- Contravene Sunday trading restrictionsAny Person
Fine up to £1,000
s.sch002
(1) Where a person becomes a shop worker to whom paragraph 6 applies, his employer...
Regulated
- Give shop workers a written statement about Sunday working rightsEmployer
22 other schedules
s.sch001
(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), this Schedule applies to any large shop situated in a...
s.sch001
The occupier of a shop to which this Schedule applies shall not load or unload,...
s.sch001
(1) A consent under this Schedule may be granted subject to such conditions as the...
s.sch001
An application for a consent under this Schedule shall be made in writing and shall...
s.sch001
An applicant for a consent under this Schedule shall pay such reasonable fee in respect...
s.sch001
(1) Where an application is duly made to the district council for a consent under...
s.sch001
Where— (a) the occupier of a shop in respect of which a consent under this...
s.sch001
Where a district council grants a consent under this Schedule, the council may cause a...
s.sch002
(1) In this Schedule “shop worker” means an employee who, under his contract of employment,...
s.sch002
(1) An employee who is a protected shop worker or an opted-out shop worker has...
s.sch002
(1) Where an employee who is a protected shop worker or an opted-out shop worker...
s.sch002
(1) An employee who is dismissed shall be regarded for the purposes of Part XI...
s.sch002
Articles 140 and 141 of the Employment Rights Order (qualifying period of employment and upper...
s.sch002
(1) Any provision in an agreement (whether a contract of employment or not) shall be...
s.sch002
In Article 135 of the Employment Rights Order (dismissal on grounds of assertion of statutory...
s.sch002
(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (5), a shop worker is to be regarded as “protected” for...
s.sch002
(1) Any contract of employment under which a shop worker who satisfies paragraph 2(2)(a) was...
s.sch002
(1) This paragraph applies where— (a) under the contract of employment under which a shop...
s.sch002
(1) This paragraph applies where— (a) under the contract of employment under which a shop...
s.sch002
(1) A shop worker to whom this paragraph applies may at any time give his...
s.sch002
(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), a shop worker is to be regarded as “opted-out” for...
s.sch002
(1) Where a shop worker gives his employer an opting-out notice, the contract of employment...
Help complying
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