Street Trading Act, 1926

Street-traders certificates.

3.—(1) Upon the application to the Commissioner of any person and (save as hereinafter mentioned) the payment by such person to the Commissioner of a fee of five shillings, the Commissioner if he is satisfied that such person is a fit and proper person to have a street-trader's certificate, may subject to the provisions of this section grant to such person a street-trader's certificate under and in accordance with this Act.

(2) Every street-trader's certificate granted under this Act shall be in the prescribed form and shall operate and be expressed to authorise the person to whom the same is granted to sell, and to offer, expose, and carry for sale in any street in the City of Dublin any goods of any description actually carried by him either directly in his hands or by means of a tray, bag, basket, or other like receptacle not exceeding the prescribed limits of size, but subject to the provisions of this Act and the regulations made thereunder.

(3) Every street-trader's certificate granted under this section shall, unless previously revoked, remain in force for one year only from the grant thereof.

(4) No fee shall be payable in respect of the grant of a street-trader's certificate under this Act to a person who at the time of the grant of such certificate is under the age of sixteen years but no such certificate shall be granted to any such person unless at the time of such grant he so complies or has so complied with the Employment of Children Act, 1903 , and the bye-laws made by the Corporation thereunder that he would, if this Act had not been passed, be entitled to carry on street-trading within the meaning of that Act in the City of Dublin.

(5) The holding by a person under the age of sixteen years of a street-trader's certificate granted under this Act shall not exempt such person from the obligation to fulfil and observe all bye-laws made by the Corporation under the Employment of Children Act, 1903 .

(6) All fees received by the Commissioner under this section shall be paid into or disposed of for the benefit of the Exchequer in such manner as the Minister for Finance shall direct.