{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/street-trading-act-northern-ireland-2001/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/street-trading-act-northern-ireland-2001/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2001/8",
  "legislation_title": "Street Trading Act (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/street-trading-act-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Licensing of street traders",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, no person shall engage in street trading in any street within a district, unless that person is authorised to do so by a street trading licence or a temporary licence granted under this Act by the council for the district.\n(2) Subject to section 2, in this Act “street trading” means—\n(a) selling any article or thing, or\n(b) supplying a service,\nin a street, whether or not in or from a stationary position.\n(3) In this Act—\n(a) any reference to selling an article or thing includes a reference to offering or exposing an article or thing for sale; and\n(b) any reference to supplying a service is a reference to supplying a service for gain or reward and includes a reference to offering to supply a service.\n(4) For the purposes of this Act a person engages in street trading whether or not he regularly carries on the business of street trading.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2001/8/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:21:49.635316+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."
}