Street Trading Act, 1926

Prohibition of unauthorised street-trading.

2.—(1) Subject to the exceptions hereinafter mentioned, it shall not be lawful for any person after the commencement of this Act to sell or offer, expose, or carry for sale any goods of any description in any street in the City of Dublin without holding a street-trader's certificate granted to him under this Act and then in force or to engage in any form of stall-trading in any street in the City of Dublin without holding (in addition to such street-trader's certificate) a street-traders stall licence granted to him under this Act and then in force.

(2) After the commencement of this Act it shall not be lawful for any person holding a street-trader's certificate granted under this Act and not holding a street-trader's stall licence granted under this Act to sell or offer, expose, or carry for sale any goods of any description in any street in the City of Dublin otherwise than in accordance in all respects with such certificate and any enactment or regulation referred to therein.

(3) After the commencement of this Act it shall not be lawful for any person holding both a street-trader's certificate and a street-trader's stall licence granted under this Act to engage in any form of street-trading (except stall-trading) in the City of Dublin otherwise than in accordance in all respects with such certificate and any enactment or regulation referred to therein or to engage in stall-trading in any street in the City of Dublin otherwise than in accordance in all respects (whether as to time, manner, place, or otherwise) with such licence and any enactment, regulation, or bye-law referred to therein.

(4) Every person who after the commencement of this Act sells or offers, exposes, or carries for sale any goods in contravention of this section shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding in the case of a first offence five pounds or in the case of a second or any subsequent offence ten pounds.

(5) This section shall not apply to—

(a) a person bona-fide and lawfully employed as assistant to a street-trader authorised by this Act to have an assistant in respect of anything done by him as such assistant which he is authorised by this Act so to do; or

(b) a person who sells goods or offers, exposes or carries goods for sale only to persons in, at, or immediately outside the house or other place in which they reside and who does not sell any goods, or offer, expose, or carry any goods for sale to passers-by in the street; or

(c) a person who sells goods or offers, exposes, or carries goods for sale in any lawful public market or fair.