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Section 81, The Rural Area (2) This Ordinance shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1950, or
Status not yet checkedThe Rural Area (2) This Ordinance shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1950, or, Sierra Leone
(l) Such licences may be obtained on application to aproper officer at the office of a rural district council, and such
officer is hereby authorised and empowered to grant the same
upon payment of the fee mentioned in this part and in the
Third Schedule.
(2) Licences granted under this part may be yearly, halfyearly or quarterly as prescribed in the Third Schedule and every
such licence shall bear the date of, and commence on, the day of
its being granted, and shall expire in the case of-
(a) a yearly licence, on the thirty-first of December in
each year;
(b) a half-yearly licence, on the thirtieth of June or the
thirty-first of December in each year;
(c) a quarterly licence, on the thirty-first of March,
thirtieth of June, thirtieth of September or thirty-first of
December in each year:
Provided that a licence may be granted under Part III of
the Third Schedule for a single entertainment.
(3) Every hawker or pedlar of manufactured goods shall, in
addition to his licence, be supplied with a certificate which shall
bear the name of the licensee, the number of his licence and the
dates of issue and expiration of the same, and he shall be
required to carry about such certificate with him and to produce
the same when demanded by an inspector of licences appointed
by the Rural Area Council, a rural district council or a village
committee or any member of the Police Force; and if he shall
fail to produce such certificate the wares of such hawker or
pedlar shall be detained until he shall either give his full name
and address or produce his licence or certificate. Any person
giving a false name or address shall, in addition to any penalty
which he may incur under this part, be liable on summary
conviction to a fine not exceeding one pound; and it shall be
lawful for the rural district council to cause any wares so
detained to be sold unless they are claimed and taken away
by the owner thereof within seven days after such detention;
and all expenses of the rural district council for, or incident to,
the detention or selling of any such wares shall be repaid to it
by the owner and be recoverable as damages or be deducted
from the proceeds of the sale of any such wares.
(4) The proper officer of the rural district council shall make Publication
of vehicle
out and deliver quarterly to the Treasurer of the Rural Area licences.
Council a list in duplicate of the names of owners or persons in
possession or making use _of vehicles _who have taken out licences
in pursuance of the provisiOns of this part, and the number and
description of such vehicles, and the Treasurer of the Rural
Area Council shall forward one copy of such list in respect of
each rural district to the Minister.
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