The UK and Scottish Governments are consulting on the case for amending and modernising the law as it applies to the control of street trading and the certification of pedlars.
The consultation has been launched by The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and is available on-line at:
http://www.berr.gov.uk/whatwedo/consumers/business/market-trading/index.html
The views of the public are being sought on options to:
- Make the street trading and pedlary regulatory regime more proportionate and effective.
- Providing local authorities with additional enforcement options in respect of illegal street trading.
- Updating the Pedlars Act 1871 to modernise the certification scheme and the definition of a pedlar.
- Consider introducing a means by which, local authorities might exert proportionate limits on certified pedlar activity in designated areas.
- Revoking the Pedlars Acts and providing for adequate regulation of itinerant traders within the street trading regime.
The consulation will run until 12 February 2010.
Criminal Justice Directorate