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19 retailers ignore Good Friday rules
5:00AM Saturday April 07, 2007
By Errol Kiong
More than three-quarters of retailers visited by Labour Department inspectors yesterday were flouting Good Friday trading rules.
Department staff checked on 25 stores around the country and found 19 trading illegally. Most were garden centres.
Andrew Annakin, the department's deputy secretary (workplace), said most stores visited were likely to have been prosecuted before.
"These visits could result in the retailer being issued with a warning or summons, depending on the retailer's specific circumstances."
The department visits annually on the 3 1/2 restricted days set out in the Shop Trading Hours Repeal Act 1990.
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