PART 3

Licensing
CHAPTER 2

Street Trading

City of Westminster Act 1999

Interpretation of Act of 1999
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1
Section 2 (interpretation) of the Act of 1999 is renumbered as subsection (1) and amended as follows.
2
In paragraph (b) of the definition of “street”, for “have access without payment” there is substituted
obtain access without payment—
i
whether or not they need the consent of the owner or occupier; and
ii
if they do, whether or not they have obtained it;
.
3
In the definition of “street trading”—
a
before “section 3” the words “subsection (2) below and” are inserted;
b
after “gain or reward”, the words “(whether or not the gain or reward accrues to the person actually carrying out the trading)” are inserted.
4
After subsection (1) as renumbered by subsection (1) above, the following subsection is inserted—
2
In determining whether activity amounts to street trading for the purposes of this Act, the fact—
a
that a transaction was completed elsewhere than in a street in the case where the initial offer or display of the articles in question or the offer of services, as the case may be, took place in a street;
b
that either party to the transaction was not in a street at the time it was completed;
c
that the articles actually sold or services actually supplied, as the case may be, were different from those offered,
shall be disregarded.
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