20 Street trading. E+W
[F1(1)Subject to subsection (2) of this section, no child shall engage or be employed in street trading.]
(2)A local authority may make byelaws [F2authorising children who have attained the age of fourteen years to be employed by their parents in street trading to such extent as may be specified in the byelaws, and for regulating street trading under the byelaws by persons who are so authorised to be employed in such trading;] and byelaws so made may distinguish between persons of different ages and sexes and between different localities, and may contain provisions—
(a)forbidding any such person to engage or be employed in street trading unless he holds a licence granted by the authority, and regulating the conditions on which such licences may be granted, suspended, and revoked;
(b)determining the days and hours during which, and the places at which, such persons may engage or be employed in street trading;
(c)requiring such persons so engaged or employed to wear badges;
(d)regulating in any other respect the conduct of such persons while so engaged or employed.
[F3(3)[F4Byelaws under this section shall not authorise a child to engage, or be employed, on a Sunday] in street trading of a description to which, notwithstanding section 58 of the M1Shops Act 1950 (which extends certain provisions to any place where a retail trade or business is carried on), those provisions do not extend.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 20(1) substituted by Employment Act 1989 (c. 38, SIF 43:1), s. 10(2), Sch. 3 Pt. III para. 2(a)
F2Words substituted by Employment Act 1989 (c. 38, SIF 43:1), s. 10(2), Sch. 3 Pt. III para. 2(b)
F4Words substituted by Employment Act 1989 (c. 38, SIF 43:1), s. 10(2), Sch. 3 Pt. III para. 2(c)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 20 restricted by Children and Young Persons Act 1963 (c. 37), s. 35(2)
Marginal Citations