{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trading-representations-disabled-persons-act-northern-ireland-1958-repealed/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trading-representations-disabled-persons-act-northern-ireland-1958-repealed/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1958/24",
  "legislation_title": "Trading Representations (Disabled Persons) Act (Northern Ireland) 1958 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trading-representations-disabled-persons-act-northern-ireland-1958-repealed",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Sellers of goods advertised as made by, or sold for benefit of, blind or otherwise disabled persons to be registered.",
  "text": "(1) It shall not be lawful, in selling or soliciting orders for goods of any description in the course of a business carried on by any person, for any representation that, or implying that, blind or otherwise disabled persons, or any description of such persons—\n(a) are employed in the production, preparation or packing of the goods; or\n(b) benefit (otherwise than as users of the goods) from the sale of the goods or the carrying on of the business;\nto be made in the course of visits from house to house, or by post, unless the person carrying on the business is registered under this Act in respect of goods of that description; and any person who contravenes this sub-section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.\n(2) Sub-section (1) shall not apply where the business is being carried on—\n(a) by a local authority; or\n(b) by any fund, institution, association or undertaking which is registered or exempted from registration under the House to House Charitable Collections Act (Northern Ireland), 1952 1952 c.6; or\n(c) by a company, association or body providing facilities under section fifteen of the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act (Northern Ireland), 1945 1945 c.6, in pursuance of arrangements under sub-section (2) of that section; or\n(d) by any body of persons exempted by the Ministry of Labour and National Insurance (hereinafter referred to as “the Ministry” ) from the operation of sub-section (1) of this section, being a body appearing to the Ministry to be carrying on business without profit to its members;\nor where the person carrying on the business is substantially disabled and all goods with respect to which the representation is made were produced, prepared, packed or otherwise made ready for sale by his own labour.\n(3) In this section “house” includes a place of business, and “local authority” means the council of a county borough or other borough or urban or rural district.\nSubs. (4) rep. by SLR 1973",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1984 NI 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "SRO (NI) 1964/205; 1973/504"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "1972 c.9 (NI)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1958/24/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:33:14.577155+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."
}