{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-act-1984/section-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-act-1984/section-56.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/30",
  "legislation_title": "Food Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-act-1984",
  "path": "section/56",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Prohibited sales in market hours.",
  "text": "(1) A person (other than a pedlar holding a certificate under the Pedlars Act 1871) who on a market day and during market hours sells or exposes for sale any articles—\n(a) which are specified in a byelaw made by the market authority, and\n(b) which are commonly sold in the market,\nand such sale or exposure for sale—\n(i) is in any place within the authority’s area, and\n(ii) is within such distance from the market as the authority may by byelaw declare,\nis liable to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.\nThis subsection does not apply to a sale or exposure for sale in a person’s own dwelling place or shop, or in, or at the door of, any premises to a person resident in those premises.\n(2) The market authority shall keep exhibited in conspicuous positions in the vicinity of the market notices stating the effect of any byelaw made under this section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word substituted by Food Safety Act 1990 (c. 16, SIF 53:1, 2), ss. 52, 54, Sch. 2 para. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1871 c. 96."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/30/section/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:02:26.993897+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."
}