UEFA European Championship (Scotland) Act 2020

7 Trading activities, places and prohibited times

(1) An activity is to be treated as trading if it is the sale or offer for sale, in an open public place, of an article or service.

(2) For example, any of the following acts done in an open public place are to be treated as trading (except as exempted or permitted in the trading regulations by virtue of section 6(3) or 8(1))—

(a) selling an article,

(b) supplying a service,

(c) making an appeal to members of the public to give money or other property (or both) for charitable or other purposes (whether authorised or not under any enactment),

(d) providing public entertainment for gain or reward.

(3) The trading regulations may prescribe, or provide criteria for determining—

(a) activities which are (or are not) to be treated as trading for the purpose of the trading offence,

(b) places or areas within an event zone where the trading offence will not apply,

(c) alternative arrangements for existing street traders during the times when the trading offence applies, and

(d) times which are prohibited times for the purpose of the trading offence.

(4) The prohibited times may only be during the Championship period.

(5) In this Act, an “existing street trader” is any person—

(a) to whom Glasgow City Council or, as the case may be, the Police Service of Scotland has granted a trading licence, authorising the person to trade at a place in Glasgow City Council’s area prior to the date on which this Act receives Royal Assent, and which remains in force on that date, and

(b) who would, but for this Act, be entitled to trade within an event zone during the times when the trading offence applies.