{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civic-government-scotland-act-1982/section-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civic-government-scotland-act-1982/section-55.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1982/45",
  "legislation_title": "Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civic-government-scotland-act-1982",
  "path": "section/55",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Touting.",
  "text": "(1) Any person who—\n(a) in a public place—\n(i) touts for the purpose of selling or advertising anything or otherwise obtaining custom so as to give any other person reasonable cause for annoyance; or\n(ii) importunes any other person for that purpose so as to give that, or any other, person reasonable cause for annoyance; and\n(b) fails to desist when required to do so by a constable in uniform,\nshall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289G"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/55",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:10:54.687186+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}