Street Trading Act, 1926

Power to Corporation to make bye-laws.

6.—(1) The Corporation may make bye-laws for all or any of the following purposes, that is to say:—

(a) prohibiting stall-trading or any particular class of stall-trading in any specified street in the City of Dublin;

(b) prescribing the times during which stall-trading may be carried on in any specified street either generally or in regard to any specified description of goods;

(c) limiting the size and regulating the character of the vehicles and stands which may be used for stall-trading either generally or in any specified street or for any specified description of goods;

(d) regulating and restricting the mode of conducting stall-trading either generally or in any particular description of goods with a view to preventing the accumulation or facilitating the removal of refuse;

(e) ensuring the cleanliness of vehicles and stands used for stall-trading in any article intended for human food or drink and the cleanliness of the receptacles and utensils on such vehicles and stands;

(f) prohibiting the carrying or handling in the seller's hands without a protective container or wrapper of goods or any particular class of goods intended for human food or drink offered for sale on stall-trader's vehicles or stands;

(g) fixing the maximum number of assistants which may be employed at any one time by stall-traders or by any particular class of stall-traders;

(h) any matter or thing referred to in this Act as being or to be appointed or provided by the bye-laws.

(2) Sections 219 to 223 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 , shall apply to all bye-laws made by the Corporation under this section.

(3) The Minister for Local Government and Public Health may cause a local inquiry to be held for the purposes of this section, and sections 209 , 210 , 212 , and 213 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 , shall apply accordingly.