Sunday Trading (London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games) Act 2012
2012 CHAPTER 12
An Act to suspend restrictions on Sunday trading hours for the period of the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games; and for connected purposes.
[1st May 2012]
B e it enacted by the Queen'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 Suspension of restriction on Sunday trading hours
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2 Opting out of Sunday work
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3 Duration, transitional provision, extent and short title
(1) Sections 1 and 2 are repealed immediately after the end of the suspension period (as defined by section 1(3)).
(2) Subsection (3) applies in a case within section 2 where—
(a) the opting-out notice was given less than three months before the end of the suspension period, and
(b) section 42(2) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (which sets out the case in which the notice period is to be one month beginning with the day on which the notice was given) does not apply.
(3) For the purposes of section 41(3) of that Act, the notice period (which, as a result of the repeal made by subsection (1), reverts to being the period of three months beginning with the day on which the notice was given) is to be treated as ending immediately after that repeal.
(4) This Act extends to England and Wales only.
(5) This Act may be cited as the Sunday Trading (London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games) Act 2012.