The Sunday Observance Act 1780 (21 Geo 3 c 49) was an Act

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 of the Parliament

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 of the Kingdom of Great Britain

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This Act was affected by sections 1(1) and (3) of the Common Informers Act 1951

Common Informers Act 1951

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. Its provisions were excluded in relation to certain activities by:

• section 4 of the Sunday Entertainments Act 1932
• section 9 of the Cinemas Act 1985
• section 1 of the Sunday Theatre Act 1972
• section 21 of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994
  Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994
  The Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It introduced wide ranging measures aiming to cut government expenditure and bureaucracy...
  
  
• article 2 of the Deregulation (Sunday Dancing) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/3372)
• section 88 of the Licensing Act 1964

See the following cases:

• Baxter v. Langley (1868) LR 4 CP 21, 38 LJMC 1
• Terry v. Brighton Aquarium Co (1875) LR 10 QB 306, 39 JP 519
• Reid v. Wilson and Ward [1895] 1 QB 315, [1891 - 1894] All ER Rep 500
• Williams v. Wright (1897) 13 TLR 551
• Orpen v. Haymarket Capitol Ltd (1931) 145 LT 614, [1931] All ER 360
• Orpen v. New Empire Ltd (1931) 48 TLR 8, 75 Sol Jo 763
• R v. London County Council, ex parte Entertainments Protection Association Ltd [1931] 2 KB 215, 100 LJKB 760
• Green v. Kursal (Southend on Sea) Estates Ltd [1937] 1 All ER, 81 Sol Jo 279
• Houghten Le Touzel v. Mecca Ltd [1950] 2 KB 612, [1950] 1 All ER 638
• Culley v. Harrison [1956] 2 QB 71, [1956] 2 All ER 254

Section 1 - House, &c. opened on a Sunday, to which persons shall be admitted by payment, &c, shall be deemed a disorderly house

Disorderly house

In English criminal law a disorderly house is a house in which the conduct of its inhabitants is such as to become a public nuisance, or outrages public decency, or tends to corrupt or deprave, or injures the public interest; or a house where persons congregate to the probable disturbance of the...

, &c.

Section 2 - The person who acts as master or mistress in any such house shall be deemed the owner thereof. All houses where refreshments are sold at greater prices on Sundays than on other days, &c. liable to the penalties inflicted by this Act.

Section 3 - Penalty on advertising, &c.

Sections 4 and 5 were repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1966.

Section 6 was repealed by section 2 of the Limitation of Actions and Costs Act 1842 and section 2 of the Public Authorities Protection Act 1893.

Section 7 was repealed by section 87 of, and Schedule 5 to, the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963.

Section 8 was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1966.

External links

• The Sunday Observance Act 1780, as amended, from the National Archives.