(1) This Act does not apply to a retail shop that is a stall in a market unless the market is a permanent retail market.
(2) A
"permanent retail market" is an assemblage of stalls, styled or described as a market, that are predominantly used for retail businesses and that operate in a building or other permanent structure the sole or dominant use of which (or of the part in which the market operates) is the operation of the market.Note-: A stall in a permanent retail market is not a retail shop to which this Act applies unless it satisfies the definition of
"retail shop" in section 3.
(3) The regulations may make provision for or with respect to modifying the operation of this Act in its application to a retail shop in a permanent retail market.
(4) Regulations under this section may include provision for a mandatory code of conduct for lessors and lessees under leases of retail shops in a permanent retail market (including provision for sanctions for non-compliance with the mandatory code).