Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982
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39 Street traders’ licences.
(1) Subject to subsection (3) below, a licence, to be known as a “street trader’s licence”, shall be required for street trading by a person, whether on his own account or as an employee. (2) In this section “street trading” means doing any of the following things in a public place— (a) hawking, selling or offering or exposing for sale any article; (b) offering to carry out or carrying out for money or money’s worth any service, to any person in the public place and includes doing any of these things there in or from a vehicle or in or from a kiosk or moveable stall not entered in the valuation roll except where it is done in conjunction with or as part of a retail business being carried on in premises abutting the public place. (3) A street trader’s licence shall not be required for— (a) the sale of newspapers only; (b) the sale of milk by or on behalf of a person registered under regulations made under section 19 of the Food Safety Act 1990; (c) the sale of coal, coke or any solid fuel derived from coal or of which coal or coke is a constituent; (d) any activity in respect of which a certificate under the Pedlars Act 1871 has been granted; (e) any activity in respect of which a licence is required under this Act apart from this section; or (f) organising or participating in a public charitable collection within the meaning of subsection (16) of section 119 of this Act in accordance with permission granted under that section. (4) Where an application for a street trader’s licence is made in respect of an activity which— (a) consists of or includes food business within the meaning of sections 1(3) of the Food Safety Act 1990; and (b) involves the use of a vehicle, kiosk or moveable stall, the licensing authority shall, without prejudice to paragraph 5(3) of Schedule 1 to this Act, refuse the application unless there is produced to them a certificate by a food authority (for the purposes of section 5 of the Food Safety Act 1990) mentioned in subsection (4A) stating that the vehicle, kiosk or moveable stall complies with such requirements as the Scottish Ministers may by order made by statutory instrument specify. (4A) A food authority referred to in subsection (4) is a food authority in Scotland which, in respect of the activity mentioned in that subsection— (a) has registered the establishment that carries out or intends to carry out the activity for the purposes of Article 6.2 of Regulation ECNo. 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the hygiene of foodstuffs, or (b) where no such food authority has registered the establishment for those purposes, a food authority which is— (i) the licensing authority to which the application mentioned in subsection (4) in respect of the activity is made, or (ii) another licensing authority to which an application for a street trader's licence in respect of the activity is or has been made. (5) An order under subsection (4) may specify requirements by reference to provision contained in another enactment. (6) A statutory instrument containing an order made under subsection (4) is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the Scottish Parliament.
39 Street traders’ licences.
(1) Subject to subsection (3) below, a licence, to be known as a “street trader’s licence”, shall be required for street trading by a person, whether on his own account or as an employee. (2) In this section “street trading” means doing any of the following things in a public place— (a) hawking, selling or offering or exposing for sale any article; (b) offering to carry out or carrying out for money or money’s worth any service, to any person in the public place and includes doing any of these things there in or from a vehicle or in or from a kiosk or moveable stall not entered in the valuation roll except where it is done in conjunction with or as part of a retail business being carried on in premises abutting the public place. (3) A street trader’s licence shall not be required for— (a) the sale of newspapers only; (b) the sale of milk by or on behalf of a person registered under regulations made under section 19 of the Food Safety Act 1990; (c) the sale of coal, coke or any solid fuel derived from coal or of which coal or coke is a constituent; (d) any activity in respect of which a certificate under the Pedlars Act 1871 has been granted; (e) any activity in respect of which a licence is required under this Act apart from this section; or (f) organising or participating in a public charitable collection within the meaning of subsection (16) of section 119 of this Act in accordance with permission granted under that section. (4) Where an application for a street trader’s licence is made in respect of an activity which— (a) consists of or includes food business within the meaning of sections 1(3) of the Food Safety Act 1990; and (b) involves the use of a vehicle, kiosk or moveable stall, the licensing authority shall, without prejudice to paragraph 5(3) of Schedule 1 to this Act, refuse the application unless there is produced to them a certificate by a food authority (for the purposes of section 5 of the Food Safety Act 1990) mentioned in subsection (4A) stating that the vehicle, kiosk or moveable stall complies with such requirements as the Scottish Ministers may by order made by statutory instrument specify. (4A) A food authority referred to in subsection (4) is a food authority in Scotland which, in respect of the activity mentioned in that subsection— (a) has registered the establishment that carries out or intends to carry out the activity for the purposes of Article 6.2 of Regulation ECNo. 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the hygiene of foodstuffs, or (b) where no such food authority has registered the establishment for those purposes, a food authority which is— (i) the licensing authority to which the application mentioned in subsection (4) in respect of the activity is made, or (ii) another licensing authority to which an application for a street trader's licence in respect of the activity is or has been made. (5) An order under subsection (4) may specify requirements by reference to provision contained in another enactment. (6) A statutory instrument containing an order made under subsection (4) is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the Scottish Parliament.
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