There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Metropolitan Streets Act 1867, Section 9.
No picture, print, board, placard, or notice, except in such form and manner as may be approved of by the Commissioner of Police, shall, by way of advertisement, be carried or distributed in any street within the F1. . . limits of this Act by any person riding in any vehicle, or on horseback, or being on foot.
Any person doing any act in contravention of this section shall be liable for each offence to a penalty not exceeding [F2£10].
This section shall not apply to the sale of newspapers.
Textual Amendments
F1Word in ss. 6, 7, 9 repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. XV Gp.1.
F2Figures substituted by Criminal Justice Act 1967 (c. 80), s. 92, Sch. 3 Pt. I
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