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PEDLARS ACT 1871 - SECT 3

Interpretation.

3. In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context, the following terms have
the meanings herein-after respectively assigned to them; that is to say

The term "pedlar" means any hawker, pedlar, petty chapman, tinker, caster of
metals, mender of chairs, or other person who, without any horse or other
beast bearing or drawing burden, travels and trades on foot and goes from town
to town or to other men's houses, carrying to sell or exposing for sale any
goods, wares, or merchandise, or procuring orders for goods, wares, or
merchandise immediately to be delivered, or selling or offering for sale his
skill in handicraft:

The term "police district" means any of the districts mentioned in schedule
one to this Act, and the term "chief officer of police" with reference to any
police district means the officer mentioned in relation to that district in
the said schedule, and such schedule with the notes thereto shall have effect
as if it were enacted in this section:

Definition rep. by SLR 1893 (No.2)

The term "Court of Summary Jurisdiction" means and includes any justice or
justices of the peace, ... stipendiary or other magistrate, or officer, by
whatever name called, to whom jurisdiciton is given by the Summary
Jurisdiction Acts or any Acts therein referred to, or to proceedings before
whom the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction Acts are or may be made
applicable.

No one to act as a pedlar without certificate.



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