The Freetown Street Short title Trading Ordinance

Freetown Street Trading [Cap. 70 681 CHAPTER 70. FREETOWN STREET TRADING. ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS. SECTION.

CHAPTER 70. FREETOWN STREET TRADING. An Ordinance to regulate trading in the streets of the Municipal 3 of 1937. City of Freetown. 32 of 1939· [1sT NovEMBER, 1937.] 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Freetown Street Short title Trading Ordinance, and shall apply to the City of Freetown. :;~lication.* 2. For the purposes of this Ordinance- " goods" means anything which is the subject of trade, manufacture or merchandise (including animals); " street " includes any road, square, court, alley, lane, or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public have a right of way, together with the land, whether covered or not by any pavement, verandah, or other structure which lies between the roadway and the boundary of any land adjoining thereto over which the public have no right of way, as well as all public open places and such waste land adjoining any street or road as may have been reserved for its protection or benefit; " City " me.ans the City of Freetown, as defined by the Freetown Municipality Ordinance. Interpretation. Cap. 65. 3. (1) The Governor in Council after consultation with the Power to City Council of Freetown may from time to time by a notice ~;~i;;~i~ published in the Gazette prohibit the sale or exposure for sale, of streets. all goods, subject to such exceptions as may be declared in such notice, in the streets, or in or upon any specified street or part * This Ordinance has been entitled, hitherto, the Street Trading Regulation Ordinance. Power to make rules. Cap. 70] Freetown Street Trading of such street of the City and may, in like manner, cancel, suspend or modify such prohibition. Whoever after the publication of any such notice sells or exposes for sale any goods in any such streets or street against the terms of such notice shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction- (a) for a first offence to a fine not exceeding forty shillings; and ~ (b) for a second and every other offence to a fine not less than twenty shillings or more than five pounds. (2) The provisions of this section shall not apply to hawkers and pedlars but such hawkers and pedlars shall be subject to any conditions or restrictions which may be prescribed under this Ordinance. 4. (1) The Governor in Council, after consultation with the City Council of Freetown, may make rules for all or any of the purposes following- (a) fixing the days and the hours during each day on which goods may be sold in any street; (b) prescribing the precautions to be taken by traders in foodstuffs to secure the cleanliness and freedom from infection or contamination of any foodstuff exposed for sale; (c) regulating the sale of goods in the streets by hawkers and pedlars; (d) the seizure, detention and disposal of the goods of any hawker, pedlar or trader contravening the provisions of any rules made under this section; (e) prohibiting the sale of specified articles which are either dangerous or unsuitable as articles of food; (j) generally for the further and better carrying into effect the purposes of this Ordinance. (2) Any person committing a breach of any rule made under this section shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance and liable, on summary conviction, to a fi1;1e not exceeding forty shillings.