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Shops Act 1950

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1The sale of—

(a)intoxicating liquors;

(b)meals or refreshments whether or not for consumption at the shop at which they are sold, but not including the sale of fried fish and chips at a fried fish and chip shop;

(c)newly cooked provisions and cooked or partly cooked tripe ;

(d)table waters, sweets, chocolates, sugar confectionery and icecream (including wafers and edible containers);

(e)flowers, fruit and vegetables (including mushrooms) other than tinned or bottled fruit or vegetables ;

(f)milk and cream, not including tinned or dried milk or cream, but including clotted cream whether sold in this or otherwise ;

(g)medicines and medical and surgical appliances—

(i)at any premises registered under section twelve of the Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1933 ; or

(ii)by any person who has entered into a contract with an Executive Council for the supply of drugs and appliances ;'

(h)aircraft, motor, or cycle supplies or accessories ;

(i)tobacco and smokers' requisites ;

(j)newspapers, periodicals and magazines ;

(k)books and stationery from the bookstalls of such terminal and main line railway or omnibus stations, or at such aerodromes as may be approved by the Secretary of State ;

(l)guide books, postcards, photographs, reproductions, photographic films and plates, and souvenirs—

(i)at any gallery, museum, garden, park or ancient monument under the control of a public authority or university; or

(ii)at any other gallery or museum, or any place of natural beauty or historic interest, or any zoological, botanical or horticultural gardens, or aquarium, if and to the extent that the local authority certify that such sale is desirable in the interests of the public ; or

(iii)in any passenger vessel within the meaning of Part II of the Finance (1909-1910) Act, 1910, while engaged in carrying passengers ;

(m)photographs for passports ;

(n)requisites for any game or sport at any premises or place where that game or sport is played or carried on ;

(o)fodder for horses, mules, ponies and donkeys at any farm, stables, hotel or inn.

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