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Power to
take un-
licensed
pedlar and
his goods
before
Magistrate,
etc.

Regulations.

Penalties.

Application.

Ch. 31. No. 13.] Rural Pedlars.

9. It shall be lawful for any member of the Police Force
to demand from any person travelling as or carrying on the
trade of a pedlar the production of his licence, and unless
such person shall on such demand produce a licence still in
force, it shall be lawful for the person demanding the same
to take the pedlar with his goods to the nearest Magistrate
who shall have jurisdiction to. try the offender for carrying
on the trade of a pedlar without the licence required by law,
although no act of trading may prove to have been done
within the district of such Magistrate.

10. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations

(a) prohibiting the carrying on of the trade of a
pedlar within any specified area or place;

(o) specifying the hours during which or the days on
which the carrying on of the trade of a pedlar shall be
prohibited ;

(c) adding to or varying the list of articles specified
in section 4;

(d) prescribing the form of pedlar’s licence, the
duration thereof and the fees to be paid therefor;

(¢) prescribing means whether by the recording of
unger impressions or otherwise for the identification of
icence holders, and

generally imposing any other conditions to be observed by a
pedlar in carrying on his business which in the interests or
protection of trade generally should be so imposed.

(2) Kegulations made under this section shall have
no force or effect until they have been approved by the
Legislative Council. The regulations contained in the
Sehedule to this Ordinance shall be in force until varied v1
revoked.

11. Any person who contravenes any provision of thi
Ordinance or any condition of any licence shall be liable
on summary conviction, to a fine of forty-eight dollars.

12. This Ordinance shall not apply to the City of Por
of-Spain or the Boroughs of San Fernando and Arima.