MARINE HAWKERS ORDINANCE

MARINE HAWKERS ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 160.

MARINE HAWKERS.

To provide for the licensing and control of marine hawkers

[1st October, 1950.]

1. This Ordinance. may be cited as the Allarine Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance-

'marine hawker' includes any person who in the waters of the Colony

(a) trades in any vessel; or

(1))goes from place to place or goes on board any vessel,
selling or exposing for sale any goods, wares or merchandise
for immediate delivery, or exposing samples or patterns of
any goods, wares or merchandise for subsequent delivery.,
or selling or offering for sale his skill in handicraft;

place includes any boat or vessel or any spot within the waters of the
Colony;

'vessel' shall have the meaning assigned thereto in section 2 of the
Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899.

3. Any person who trades as a marine hawker except

under and in accordance with a licence issued by the Director of
Marine in accordance with regtilations made under this Ordinance
shall be guilty of an offence.


4. The Governor in Council may make regulations for the control
by registration, licensing or otherwise of marine hawkers and for
prescribing fees upon such registration Or licensing


5. (1) Any person who commits an offence against this Ordinance
shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars
and to imprisonment for six months.

(2) Any regulation made under this Ordinance may provide that a
contravention thereof shall be an offence and a person guilty of such
an offence shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of five
hundred dollars and to imprison-





ment for six months unless a lesser penalty is prescribed
by such regulation.
[16]


6. (1) In the absence of a police officer it shall be lawful for
anv marine officer, health officer, health inspector or revenue
officer in whose presence an offence against this Ordinance or
any regulation made heretinder has heen committed, to arrest the
offender and either to give him into the custody of a police
officer or take him to the nearest police station : Provided that no
such arrest shall be effected unless it is impracticable to proceed
against the offender by complaint and summons

(2) Where an offence against this Ordinance or any
regulation heretinder has been committed a police offlicer,
Marine officer, health officer, health inspector or revenue officer
may convey or cause to be conveyed before a magistrate the
goods, wares, merchandise, samples or patterns being sold,
exposed or delivered, and the utensils or other paraphernalia in
the apparent use of the offender, and the magistrate may, on
conviction of the offender, order
the forfeiture of all such goods, wares, merchandise, samples,
patterns, utensils or paraphernalia, in addition to or in substitution
for any other punishment prescribed. [7]
26 of 1950. 37 of 1950. Short title. Interpretation. (10 of 1899). Prohibition of trading as marine hawker without licence. Power to make regulations. Penalties. [s. 5 cont.] Power of arrest and order of forfeiture. 37 of 1950, Schedule.

26 of 1950. 37 of 1950. Short title. Interpretation. (10 of 1899). Prohibition of trading as marine hawker without licence. Power to make regulations. Penalties. [s. 5 cont.] Power of arrest and order of forfeiture. 37 of 1950, Schedule.

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