Rejected petition Abolish or introduce relaxation to the Sunday Trading Act 1994

Currently the Sunday Trading Act 1994 prohibits larger stores from trading for more than 6 hours during any given Sunday. This petition is to request the government to either abolish the Sunday Trading Act 1994 or to introduce further relaxation to allow larger stores to trade for more hours.

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The Sunday Trading Act 1994:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/20

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/158411

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Date submitted 14 July 2016
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