{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1982/schedule-4/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1982/30",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-miscellaneous-provisions-act-1982",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In this Schedule—\n“consent street” means a street in which street trading is prohibited without the consent of the district council;\n“licence street” means a street in which street trading is prohibited without a licence granted by the district council;\n“principal terms”, in relation to a street trading licence, has the meaning assigned to it by paragraph 4(3) below;\n“prohibited street” means a street in which street trading is prohibited;\n“street” includes—\n(a)any road, footway, beach or other area to which the public have access without payment; and\n(b)a service area as defined in section 329 of the Highways Act 1980,\nand also includes any part of a street;\n“street trading” means, subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, the selling or exposing or offering for sale of any article (including a living thing) in a street; and\n“subsidiary terms”, in relation to a street trading licence, has the meaning assigned to it by paragraph 4(4) below.\n(2) The following are not street trading for the purposes of this Schedule—\n(a) trading by a person acting as a pedlar under the authority of a pedlar’s certificate granted under the Pedlars Act 1871;\n(b) anything done in a market or fair the right to hold which was acquired by virtue of a grant (including a presumed grant) or acquired or established by virtue of an enactment or order.\n(c) trading in a trunk road picnic area provided by the Secretary of State under section 112 of the Highways Act 1980;\n(d) trading as a news vendor;\n(e) trading which—\n(i) is carried on at premises used as a petrol filling station; or\n(ii) is carried on at premises used as a shop or in a street adjoining premises so used and as part of the business of the shop;\n(f) selling things, or offering or exposing them for sale, as a roundsman;\n(g) the use for trading under Part VIIA of the Highways Act 1980 of an object or structure placed on, in or over a highway;\n(h) the operation of facilities for recreation or refreshment under Part VIIA of the Highways Act 1980;\n(j) the doing of anything authorised by regulations made under section 5 of the Police, Factories, etc. (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1916.\n(3) The reference to trading as a news vendor in sub-paragraph (2)(d) above is a reference to trading where—\n(a) the only articles sold or exposed or offered for sale are newspapers or periodicals; and\n(b) they are sold or exposed or offered for sale without a stall or receptacle for them or with a stall or receptacle for them which does not—\n(i) exceed one metre in length or width or two metres in height;\n(ii) occupy a ground area exceeding 0·25 square metres; or\n(iii) stand on the carriageway of a street.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1980 c. 66."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1871 c. 96."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1980 c. 66."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "1916 c. 31."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2006/50",
      "affecting_title": "Charities Act 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/30/schedule/4/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:11:07.379357+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."
}