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Orders of the Day — Sunday Entertainments Act, 1932.

– in the House of Commons at on 20 February 1940.

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Resolved,

"That the Order made by the Secretary of State under the Sunday Entertainments Act, 1932, for extending Section one of that Act to the urban district of Axminster, which was presented on the 15th day of February, 1940, be approved."

Resolved,

"That the Order made by the Secretary of State under the Sunday Entertainments Act, 1932, for extending Section one of that Act to the borough of Newbury, which was presented on the 15th day of February, 1940, be approved."—[Mr. Peake.]

The remaining Orders were read, and postponed.

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