Part IV Offences, Powers of Constables, etc.

Offences of annoying, offensive, obstructive or dangerous behaviour

55 Touting.

(1)

Any person who—

(a)

in a public place—

(i)

touts for the purpose of selling or advertising anything or otherwise obtaining custom so as to give any other person reasonable cause for annoyance; or

(ii)

importunes any other person for that purpose so as to give that, or any other, person reasonable cause for annoyance; and

(b)

fails to desist when required to do so by a constable in uniform,

shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding F1level 2 on the standard scale.