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PARLIAMENT OF VICTORIA
Shop Trading Reform (Essential Goods
Amendment) Act 2003
Act No.
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Clause Page
1. Purpose 1
2. Commencement 2
3. Amendment of section 4 2
ENDNOTES 3
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PARLIAMENT OF VICTORIA
Initiated in Council 10 April 2003
A BILL
to amend the Shop Trading Reform Act 1996 with respect to trading
by certain shops and for other purposes.
Shop Trading Reform (Essential Goods
Amendment) Act 2003
The Parliament of Victoria enacts as follows:
1. Purpose
The purpose of this Act is to amend the Shop
Trading Reform Act 1996--
(a) to provide for a further category of exempt
5 shops; and
(b) to allow chemists' shops, petrol shops and
certain other shops selling essential goods to
trade irrespective of the number of persons
employed in the shops.
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2. Commencement
This Act comes into operation on the day on
which it receives the Royal Assent.
3. Amendment of section 4
5 See:
(1) After section 4(1) of the Shop Trading Reform Act No.
Act 1996 insert-- 119/1993.
Reprint No. 1
"(1A) A shop is also an exempt shop if the as at
19 September
predominant business carried on in the shop 1996
is of a prescribed kind. and
amending
10 (1B) The Minister may only recommend the Act Nos
86/1998 and
making of Regulations prescribing a kind of 1/2003.
business for the purposes of sub-section (1A) LawToday:
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if the business is one of selling goods that, in dpc.vic.
the opinion of the Minister, are essential gov.au
15 goods.".
(2) After section 4(3) of the Shop Trading Reform
Act 1996 insert--
"(4) Sub-section (2) does not apply to--
(a) a chemist shop; or
20 (b) a petrol shop; or
(c) a shop in which a business of a kind
prescribed for the purposes of sub-
section (1A) is carried on.".
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Endnotes
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ENDNOTES
By Authority. Government Printer for the State of Victoria.
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