Chapter 29:15
URBAN COUNCILS ACT
Disinfection and fumigation
97. (1) The regulation, inspection and licensing of businesses carrying on disinfection,
disinfestation or fumigation by cyanide or other means.
(2) The penalizing of persons who, after notice thereof, refuse, without reasonable
grounds, to vacate any room occupied by them in any building where fumigation by
cyanide or other means is to be carried out.
Infectious diseases
98. The prevention of the possible spread of infectious, contagious or noxious diseases by the
carrying on of any business, trade or occupation.
Hawkers and street vendors
99. (1) For the purposes of this paragraph—
“goods” means wares, merchandise, produce and, generally, corporeal movable things
of any description;
“hawker” means any person who carries on the business of selling any goods while
travelling about for that purpose from place to place with the goods, either on foot or
with a vehicle, animal or carrier, but does not include—
(a) a baker or his employee in respect of the sale of bread;
(b) a dairy marketing authority or a dairyman or its or his employee, as the case
may be, in respect of the sale of milk;
(c) any person in respect of the sale of publications sponsored by the State or
newspapers;
“public place” means any bridge, enclosure, foot-path, garden, open space, pavement,
road, sanitary lane, side-walk, square, sub-way or street of the nature of a throughfare
which is vested in or controlled by the council and to which the public or any section of
the public has access;
“sell” means to sell by retail or by wholesale and, in addition to its ordinary meaning,
includes to barter or exchange or offer or expose or prepare for sale;
“street vendor” means any person who sells goods from one or more fixed places in or
on any public place, but does not include any person in respect of the sale of publications
sponsored by the State or newspapers.
(2) The regulation and licensing of hawkers and street vendors and persons who employ or
engage hawkers or street vendors as servants or agents.
(3) The prohibition, regulation or inspection of the goods which may be sold by hawkers
or street vendors.
(4) The prohibition of the carrying on of business by hawkers or street vendors except in
specified areas.
(5) The specification of the times when or periods during which hawkers or street vendors
may carry on business or allow goods to be exposed for sale at any one place.
Electricians
100. The examination and licensing of electricians and the prohibition of unlicensed persons
from acting as electricians.
Plumbers and drain-layers
101. The examination and licensing of plumbers and drain-layers and the prohibition of
unlicensed persons from carrying out plumbing or drain-laying work for the installation,
alteration or repair of any system of water supply, sewerage or drainage.
Hairdressers
102. (1) The regulation, inspection and licensing of any premises used for or in connection with
the business of hairdressers, barbers or beauty salons and the prevention of the use of such
purpose of any such premises as are unfit therefor.
(2) The standards and minimum requirements for the construction, maintenance, conduct,
good order, cleanliness, lighting, ventilation, water supply, sanitary fittings and drainage of
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