Sunday Trading Laws: A Legal Lesson!
My parental duties required me to act as chauffeur this morning.
On the way back, I stopped off to pick up desert but was estopped from checking
out and paying for my goods, consigned to joining the queue and waiting until 11:00am.
At first, I was bemused by the wait, but slowly it dawned on me what was up, yes, you
guessed, it Sunday Trading Laws meant that I couldn’t be checked out before 11:00am in this particular shop.
Why you ask, along with the many in the queue who were appalled when I mentioned
because of Sunday trading laws which many seemed to know nothing about,
calling the law “stupid”, “ridiculous” and an “affront to their rights”!
The Sunday Trading Act 1994 states that large stores are only able to be open for trading for a maximum
of six consecutive hours between the hours of 10am and 6pm. As a general rule, most supermarkets and
clothing stores tend to open between 10am and 4pm or 11am and 5pm.
For smaller shops up to and including 280 square metres there are no opening restrictions.
This was a small reminder of how laws—especially those we rarely think about—can still have a direct impact
on our day-to-day lives.
But also how little is known about the law and how it continues to touch and shape our lives 24/7.
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