Shops Act 1936
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1936 c. 28 |
| Year | 1936 |
Shops Act, 1936,
(26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8) CHAPTER 28.
An Act to provide for the application of the Shops Acts, 1912 to 1934, to premises and places where the business of lending books or periodicals is carried on for purposes of gain.
[14th July 1936]
B E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Extension to lending libraries of the Shops Acts, 1912 to 1934.
(1) For the purposes of the Shops Acts, 1912 to 1934, the expression ‘retail trade or business’ shall include the business of lending books or periodicals when carried on for purposes of gain; and accordingly subsection (1) of section nineteen of the Shops Act, 1912 , shall be amended by inserting after the words ‘or intoxicating liquors’, the words ‘the business of lending books or periodicals when carried on for purposes of gain.’
(2) Subsection (2) of the said section nineteen shall be amended by inserting after the words ‘from which no private profit is derived’ the words following:—
‘or to any library at which the business of lending books or periodicals is not carried on for purposes of gain other than that of making profits for some philanthropic or charitable object (including any religious or educational object) or for any club or institution which is not itself carried on for purposes of gain.’
(3) Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this Act, the Shops Acts, 1912 to 1934, shall not apply to any library which, on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, was carried on by a society registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Acts, 1893 to 1928, mainly for the purpose of affording to its members means of education or recreation, so long as the following conditions are complied with, that is to say:—
(a ) that the library continues to be carried on by the society mainly for the purpose aforesaid;
(b ) that no pecuniary profit is directly derived from the lending of books or periodicals at or from the library;
(c ) that no person employed about the business of any shop occupied by the society is engaged about the business of the library.
2 Short title, citation, extent and commencement.
(1) This Act may be cited as the Shops Act, 1936,...
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