§ Mr. Ray Powell, supported by Mr. Patrick Cormack, Mr. Donald Anderson, Mr. Alfred Morris, Mr, Michael Lord, Mr. Malcolm Thornton, Mrs. Ann Winterton, Mr. Stuart Bell, Mr. Alun Michael, Mr. Michael Alison, Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody and Mr. A. J. Beith, presented a Bill to provide for a general prohibition on the opening on Sunday of shops for retail trade or business; to make provision for the registration with the local authority of certain specific categories of shops which are to be permitted to open on a Sunday; to make provision for certain exempt categories of shops which will be permitted to open on a Sunday without prior registration; to make provision for the payment of fees for registration; to provide for the protection of persons employed in or for the purpose of a shop which is to be permitted to open on a Sunday; to make consequential amendments to and repeals in the Shops Act 1950; and for connected purposes: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time upon Friday 22 January 1993 and to be printed. [Bill 14.]