Marine Hawkers.
CHAPTER 160.
MARINE HAWKERS.
[CAP. 160
To provide for the licensing and control of marine hawkers. 26 of 1950.
[1st October, 1950.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Marine Hawkers Ordinance.
37 of 1950.
Short title.
2. In this Ordinance-
"marine hawker" includes any person who in the waters of the Colony-
(a) trades in any vessel; or
(b) 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.
Interpretation.
(10 of 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 regulations made under this Ordinance shall be guilty of an offence.
Prohibition of trading as marine hawker without licence.
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.
Power to make regulations.
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 imprisonment for three months.
Penalties.
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