Shop Trading Reform Act 1996

A shop is an exempt shop if the predominant business carried on in the shop is that of—

a chemist shop; or

a petrol shop; or

an eating-house, restaurant, cafe or any other shop that sells cooked or prepared meals that are ready to eat on the premises or to be consumed off the premises; or

a prescribed kind.

A shop is also an exempt shop at a particular time if—

the number of persons employed and working in a business carried on in the shop at that time does not exceed 20; and

at any time within the period of 7 days before that time, the number of persons employed by the occupier of the shop and working in any business carried on in shops of any kind in Victoria does not exceed 100.

The number of persons employed for the purposes of subsection (2)(b)—

if the occupier of the shop is a body corporate, is to include the persons—

employed in shops of any kind in Victoria by a body corporate that is, by reason of the Corporations Act, related to that body corporate; and

working in any business carried on in those shops;

is to be calculated by dividing the total number of the hours worked by all persons employed and working in the business carried on in those shops during the relevant period by 38.