Street Trading Act (Northern Ireland) 2001

JurisdictionNorthern Ireland
Citation2001 NI c 8
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, no person shall engage in street trading in any street within a district, unless that person is authorised to do so by a street trading licence or a temporary licence granted under this Act by the council for the district.selling any article or thing, orsupplying a service,any reference to selling an article or thing includes a reference to offering or exposing an article or thing for sale; andany reference to supplying a service is a reference to supplying a service for gain or reward and includes a reference to offering to supply a service.(4) For the purposes of this Act a person engages in street trading whether or not he regularly carries on the business of street trading.selling articles or things, orsupplying a service,selling articles or things from a vehicle which is used only for the regular delivery of such articles or things to the occupiers of premises adjoining any street;anything done in a market or fair the right to hold which was acquired by virtue of a grant (including a presumed grant) or acquired or established by virtue of any statutory provision;authorised by regulations made under section 5 of the Police, Factories, &c (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1916 (c. 31) , orauthorised by a licence granted under the House to House Charitable Collections Act (Northern Ireland) 1952 (c. 6) or exempted by an order made under section 3 of that Act;trading by a person acting as a pedlar under the authority of a pedlar's certificate granted under the Pedlars Act 1871 (c. 96) , if the trading is carried out only by means of visits from house to house.takes place at a time when that area has temporary furniture on it that under the terms of the licence is permitted to be there at that time;is done in the course of a business which is carried on by the licence holder at the premises specified in the licence;relates to the supply of food or drink in or from those premises for consumption on that area; anddoes not involve a contravention of the conditions of the licence.at or adjoining premises used as a petrol filling station; orat or adjoining premises used as a shop,is not street trading for the purposes of this Act if—it forms part of the business of the owner or the occupier of the premises, andtakes place during the period when the premises are open to the public for business.the only articles sold are newspapers or periodicals, andthey are sold without a receptacle or from a receptacle which is carried by the vendor.vary (whether by addition, omission or alteration) the activities which are not street trading for the purposes of this Act, andamend subsections (1) to (3) , as they have effect for the time being, in such manner as appears necessary or expedient in consequence of such variation.(5) Expressions used in paragraph (f) of subsection (1) and in the Licensing of Pavement Cafés Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 have the same meaning in that paragraph as in that Act.(1) A council may pass a resolution designating a street in its district as a street in which it may allocate

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