“4A Garden centres may remain open on Easter Sunday

• Section 3(1) does not apply to a shop on Easter Sunday if it is a garden centre, being a shop the sole or principal business of which is the sale of plants or garden supplies or both.”

“7A Further consequential protection for certain workers

• “(1) An employment agreement entered into or made before, on, or after the commencement of the Shop Trading Hours Act Repeal Amendment Act 2001 must not be interpreted as requiring a person who is a shop worker in a shop to which section 4A applies to work on Easter Sunday unless the parties to the employment agreement so agree.

  “(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to an employment agreement relating to a person who is a shop worker employed to work in, or from, or in relation to, any shop that, before the commencement of the Shop Trading Hours Act Repeal Amendment Act 2001, was entitled to be open on Easter Sunday under section 4.

  “(3) In this section,—

  “employment agreement has the same meaning as in section 5 of the Employment Relations Act 2000

  “shop worker has the same meaning as in section 7(1).”

• “(2A) A mandatory opening provision in a lease, licence, contract, covenant, or agreement entered into, or made before, the commencement of the Shop Trading Hours Act Repeal Amendment Act 2001 must not be interpreted as requiring a shop to which section 4A applies to open on Easter Sunday.

• “(2B) Subsection (2A) does not apply to a shop that, before the commencement of the Shop Trading Hours Act Repeal Amendment Act 2001, was entitled to be open on Easter Sunday under section 4.”

• “(2) Every prosecution under section 5 initiated by an information laid before the commencement of the Shop Trading Hours Act Repeal Amendment Act 2001 must proceed as if that Act had not been enacted.”