SBC Consent Street Trading Procedural Guidance 2024

Glossary

• The Act - Schedule 4: Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982
• The Council - Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council
• Applicant - the individual who has submitted an application for a Street Trading Consent
• Consent Holder - an individual who holds a street trading consent and responsible for meeting the conditions attached to a consent
• Assistant - an individual named on the consent as assisting the consent holder in trading and meeting the conditions attached to the consent
• A street - Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 Paragraph .1(1), Schedule 3 includes: any road, footway, beach or other area to which the public have access without payment; and a service area as defined in section 329 of the Highways Act 1980
• A street trading consent - permission given by the Council to trade subject to conditions and payment of a fee
• Site - area identified in the consent
• Unit - unit described in the consent
• A Roundsman - an individual who visits a "round" of customers and delivers the pre-orders of those customers, for example, a milkman. Trading from an ice-cream van or mobile food van is not classed as a roundsman
• A Pedlar - a Pedlar must hold a valid Pedlar's Certificate issued by a Chief Constable of Police. Keep moving, stopping only to service customers at their request. Move from place to place, and not circulate within the same area. Carry all goods for sale and not set up a "stall
• News Vendor - the only articles sold or exposed or offered for sale are newspapers or periodicals; and they are sold or exposed or offered for sale without a stall or receptacle for them or with a stall or receptacle for them which does not exceed 1m in length or width or 2m in height, occupy a ground area exceeding 0.25 sq./m and stand on the carriageway of a street
• Mobile Trader - a Mobile Trader is one that visits more than one location within the Borough and continually moves from location to location; does not wait in one location for more than 20 minutes; moves at least 50 metres from the last trading location; does not return to the same trading location within 4 hours
• Licensing Officer - an Authorised Officer employed by the Council and authorised by the Council to act in pursuance of the provisions of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (the legislation regulating Street Trading)