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Different shops
Cap. 287, s. 18 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) Where in any shop different trades or businesses are conducted for which different hours of opening and closing are prescribed, such shop shall be opened at the latest hour and closed at the earliest hour prescribed for any such trade or business unless some means are provided, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Police, for the permanent partition or division of the premises into separate and distinct shops for each such trade and business being carried on therein so as to ensure the effective closing, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, of each of the said divisions of the whole premises used in carrying on each of such trades or business at the proper time.
(2) Where, under subsection (1) of this section or under any other provision of this Act, a shop is authorised to be kept open for the purposes of certain transactions alone, no person shall sell or purchase, or cause to be sold or purchased, any article other than one for the sale of which the shop is authorised to be kept open.
(3) Every person who contravenes subsection (2) of this section, commits an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars.
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