Bank Holiday Britain

Easter Road, Edinburgh

“An Act to provide for a shop’s early closing day to be selected by its occupier; to abolish the power to change the closing time on early closing days and the power to extend early closing day requirements to exempted shops; to substitute the expression ”early closing day” for the expression ”weekly half-holiday”in the Shops Act 1950; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.”
source: Shops (Early Closing Days) Act 1965 (PDF)