24 February 2021
8.Section 1(2) provides that the offence is only committed if the person who carried out the assault, threat or abuse knew, or ought to have known, that the person was a retail worker and was engaged, at the time, in retail work. Otherwise, no offence under subsection (1) is committed (although the behaviour may, of course, still constitute an offence – such as the common-law offence of assault).