Pedlars Act 1871

Preliminary

1Short title.

This Act may be cited as The Pedlars Act, 1871.

2Commencement of Act.

This act shall not come into operation-until the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, which date is in this Act referred to as the commencement of this Act.

3Interpretation of certain terms in this Act.

In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context, the following terms have the meanings herein-after respectively assigned to them; that is to say,

• The term " pedlar " means any hawker, pedlar, petty chapman, tinker, caster of metals, mender of chairs, or other person who, without any horse or other beast bearing or drawing burden, travels and trades on foot and goes from town to town or to other men's houses, 'carrying to sell or exposing for sale any goods, wares, or merchandise, or procuring orders for goods, wares, or merchandise immediately to be delivered, or selling or offering for sale his skill in handicraft:

• The term " police district " means any of the districts mentioned in schedule one to this Act, and the term " chief officer of police " with reference to any police district means the officer mentioned in relation to that district in the said schedule, and such schedule with the notes thereto shall have effect as if it were enacted in this section:

• The term " Summary Jurisdiction Acts " means as follows :

  • As to England, the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled " An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties " of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and " "Wales with respect to summary convictions and orders," and any Acts amending the same :

  • As to Scotland, "The Summary Procedure Act, 1864 :"

  • As to Ireland, within the police district of Dublin metropolis, the Acts regulating the powers and duties of justices of the peace for such district, or of the police of such district; and elsewhere in Ireland, " The Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851," and any Act amending the same :

• The term " Court of Summary Jurisdiction " means and includes any justice or justices of the peace, sheriff or sheriff substitute, metropolitan police magistrate, stipendiary or other magistrate, or officer, by whatever name called, to whom jurisdiction is given by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts or any Acts therein referred to, or to proceedings before whom the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction Acts are or may be made applicable.