Pedlars Act 1871

5 Grant of certificate.

The following regulations shall be made with respect to the grant of pedlars certificates:

1.

Subject as in this Act mentioned, a pedlar's certificate shall be granted to any person by the chief officer of police of the police district in which the person applying for a certificate has, during one month previous to such application, resided, on such officer being satisfied that the applicant is above seventeen years of age, is a person of good character, and in good faith intends to carry on the trade of a pedlar:

2.

An application for a pedlar's certificate shall be in the form specified in schedule two to this Act, or as near thereto as circumstances admit:

3.

There shall be paid for a pedlar's certificate previously to the delivery thereof to the applicant a fee of five shillings :

4.

A pedlar's certificate shall be in the form specified in schedule two to this Act, or as near thereto as circumstances admit :

5.

A pedlar's certificate shall remain in force for one year from the date of the issue thereof, and no longer :

6.

On the delivery up of the old certificate, or on sufficient evidence being produced to the satisfaction of the chief officer of police that the old certificate has been lost, that officer may, either at the expiration of the current year, or during the currency of any year, grant a new certificate in the same manner as upon a first application for a pedlar's certificate. In Great Britain one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of ,State, and in Ireland the Lord Lieutenant or other chief governor or governors of Ireland for the time being, may from time to time provide for the expiration of all pedlars certificates at the same period of each year, and in doing so shall provide for the apportionment of the fees payable in respect of any such certificate.