Insiza Rural District Council (Hawkers and Vendors) By-laws, 2025

These by-laws licence hawkers, vendors and flea market traders in the Insiza Rural District Council area, and set the conditions under which they may trade.

A hawker is someone who sells goods while travelling from place to place; a vendor trades from a fixed bay, stall or table. Both need a licence or a permit, and a permit runs for three months. Applications are made on the council's form with the fee, two passport photographs and — where food is to be sold — a valid Medical Certificate of Health. Employers of hawkers or vendors need an employer's licence, and no one may engage another person to hawk or vend unless both the employer's licence and the worker's own licence are in place.

The council may set aside land for people's markets and divide it into stands, stalls or tables, with separate applications for a bay. The First Schedule lists areas where trading is prohibited or restricted, and the council may by notice fix the days, hours and goods for which vendors may trade.

Hygiene rules are detailed. Carts, containers, stalls, storage premises, clothing and equipment must be kept clean; no unsound or unwholesome food may 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 second-hand clothing dealers may not sell undergarments. Health officers may inspect premises and equipment, and obstruction is prohibited.

Traders must not litter, must move their 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 any roasting fire and dispose of the ashes safely.

Licences may be replaced on payment of a fee, changes of address or abandonment must be notified within seven days, and a trader who fails to notify abandonment within fourteen days has the licence cancelled. The by-laws also provide for refusal, cancellation, renewal and variation of licences, and for the seizure and disposal of unclaimed goods.

The extract available here was truncated before the Second Schedule of fees and Third Schedule of penalties, so the amounts should be read in the instrument itself.