A local authority shall not have power to alter from one o’clock the hour by which a shop must be closed for the serving of customers on its early closing day; and accordingly in section 1(4) of the M1Shops Act 1950 the words from “either wholly” where they first occur to the words “two o’clock” and the words “either wholly or to such extent as aforesaid” are hereby repealed.

A local authority shall not have power to extend the provisions of the said section 1 to shops to which by virtue of subsection (6) of that section those provisions do not apply; and accordingly the words from “but the local authority” onwards in that subsection are hereby repealed.