2 Interpretation
  • In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

    goods includes all personal chattels other than liquor (within the meaning of the Sale of Liquor Act 1989), money, and things in action

    repealed Act means the Shop Trading Hours Act 1977

    shop means a building, place, or part of a building or place, where goods are kept, sold, or offered for sale, by retail; and includes an auction mart, and a barrow, stall, or other subdivision of a market; but does not include—

    • (a) a private home where the owner or occupier's effects are being sold (by auction or otherwise); or

    • (b) a building or place where the only business carried on is that of selling by auction agricultural products, pastoral products, and livestock, or any of them; or

    • (c) a building or place where the only business carried on is that of selling goods to people who are dealers, and buy the goods to sell them again.