Certified correct as passed Third Reading on the 22nd day of August, 1980. TAN D. IZARD, Law Clerk.

ATTORNEY GENERAG.

Holiday Shopping Regulation Act

HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

Interpretation

1. In this Act ®council", ; in relation to a regional district, means a regional board; ®electors", ain velation to a regional district, means the electors in an elec~ toral area of the regional district;

*holiday” Means Sunday, New Year's Day, Good Friday, Victoria Day, Dominion

“Day, British ColumbLa Day, Labour Day, Thanksgiving Day, Remembrance Day, Christmas Day, December 26 and a day designated for special ob- secvance within the terms of section 7;

*“munieipality", with respect to an area of the Province not in a municipality but in

® regional district, meang a regional district; "retail business" .

means the selling or offering for sale of goods or services for con~

gumption or use and not for resale and includes ¢a) the selling or offering for sale of goods and services by hawk-

ers and peddlars, and (6) charging the public zor admission to a place or facility for educational,. recreational, cultural or amusement purposes; fretall establishment" wheans any place where retail business is carried on; “echeduled business" ' means a retail business included in one of the classes of retail

business listed in Schedule A. .

General prohibition of holiday sales

2. Wo person shall carry on retail business or admit the public to a vetall establishment on a holiday except

(a) as permitted under section Ll of the Lord's Day Act (Canada),

(b) in respect of a scheduled business,

(c) 38 permitted by the bylaw of a municipality adopted in accord-

jance with section 3, or (dj) an permitted in an order of the Lieutenant Governor in Council

under section 7.