The Docklands Light Railway (Woolwich Arsenal Extension) Order 2004

Market traders

32.—(1) Where DLRL considers that the carrying on by the holder of a public markets licence of the trading permitted by that licence would prevent or render less convenient the exercise of the powers of article 30 or 31, or the construction of the authorised works, DLRL may—

(a) revoke that licence; or

(b) with the consent of the Council, vary its principal or subsidiary terms.

(2) DLRL shall serve written notice of any such revocation or variation on the licence-holder in question not less than 28 days before the revocation or variation is to take effect.

(3) Where DLRL revokes a public markets licence under this article, the Council may remit or refund, as it considers appropriate, the whole or a part of any fee paid for the grant or renewal of the licence.

(4) DLRL shall pay compensation to any person who suffers any loss or damage from the exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph (1).

(5) Any dispute as to a person’s entitlement to compensation under paragraph (4), or as to the amount of the compensation, shall be determined under Part I of the 1961 Act.

(6) In this article—

“the Council” means the Council of the London Borough of Greenwich; and

“public markets licence” means a licence to trade at Beresford Market granted to any person by the Council pursuant to its rights under section 4 of the Woolwich Borough Council Act 1903(1) or any other enactment.

(1)

1903 c. clxxvii (3 Edw.7).