Shurugwi Town (Hawkers and Vendors) By-laws, 2025

These by-laws licence hawkers, vendors and flea market traders in the Shurugwi Town Council area, and set the conditions of trading.

A licence or permit is required from the council, applications must be supported by the fee, photographs and — where food is sold — a valid Medical Certificate of Health, and employers of hawkers or vendors need their own employer's licence. The council may set aside land for people's markets and allocate bays, stalls and tables, with separate applications, and may refuse, vary, renew or cancel a licence.

Hygiene duties are detailed: carts, containers, stalls, storage premises, clothing and equipment must be kept clean; unsound or unwholesome food may not be sold; food must be protected from dirt, dust and flies; nobody may sell food while knowingly suffering from a contagious or infectious disease; food equipment may not be used for other purposes; and dealers in second-hand clothes may not sell undergarments. Health officers may inspect, and obstruction is prohibited.

Traders must not litter, must move goods when asked so the street can be cleaned, must clear the stand at the end of each day and leave it clean, must not sleep at the place of business, and must fully extinguish roasting fires and dispose of ashes safely. Vending bays and shades are demarcated and determined by the council.

Licences may be replaced on payment, changes of address or abandonment must be notified within seven days, and failing to notify abandonment within fourteen days results in cancellation. The by-laws also provide for seizure and disposal of unclaimed goods.

The extract available here was truncated before the fee and penalty schedules, so those amounts should be read in the instrument itself.