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Environmental Public Health Act 1987 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Food Establishments, Markets and Hawkers

33. Licensing of hawkers operating from stalls, etc.

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Last amended by an amending law of 2019.

A person must not —

(a)

hawk, sell or expose for sale any food or goods of any kind; or

(b)

set up or use any stall, table, showboard, vehicle or receptacle for the purpose of hawking, selling or exposing for sale any food or goods of any kind,in any street or part of the street or in any premises or public place without first obtaining a licence from the Director‑General, Food Administration.

Terms defined in s 2

Director-General, Food Administration
Defined · s 2
“Director-General, Food Administration” means the Director‑General, Food Administration appointed under section 3(1) of the Sale of Food Act 1973;
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food
Defined · s 2
“food” includes drink, chewing gum and other products of a like nature and use, and articles and substances used as ingredients in the preparation of food or drink or of such products, but does not include —(a)live animals or birds;(b)fodder or feeding stuffs for animals, birds or fish; or(c)articles or substances used only as drugs;
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premises
Defined · s 2
“premises” means messuages, buildings, lands, easements and hereditaments of any tenure, whether open or enclosed, whether built on or not, whether public or private, and whether maintained or not under statutory authority, and includes any place or structure, or any part thereof used or intended to be used for human habitation or for any other purpose whatsoever;
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public place
Defined · s 2
“public place” includes any place whether privately owned or not to which the public has access;
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sale
Defined · s 2
“sale” includes barter, exchange, import and export, and also includes offering or attempting to sell, or causing or allowing to be sold, or exposing for sale, or receiving or sending or delivering for sale, or supplying any food, drink or goods where consideration is to be received by the supplier for such supply either specifically or as part of a service contracted for, or having in possession for sale or having in possession any food, drink or goods knowing that the same is likely to be sold or offered or exposed for sale, and “sell” is to be construed accordingly;
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showboard
Defined · s 2
“showboard” includes showcase and any description of container used for the display of any article or thing;
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stall
Defined · s 2
“stall” means any table, shed, showboard, vehicle or receptacle or any other means used or intended to be used for the purpose of selling food or goods of any kind, and includes any structure affixed thereto by way of roof, support or flooring;
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street
Defined · s 2
“street” includes any road, flyover, square, footway, backlane or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public has a right of way, and also the way over any public bridge, and also includes any road, car park, field, grass verge, footway or passage, open court or open alley used or intended to be used as a means of access to 2 or more holdings, whether the public has a right of way thereover or not; and all channels, drains, ditches and reserves at the side of any street are deemed to be part of the street;
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vehicle
Defined · s 2
“vehicle” means any vehicle whether mechanically propelled or otherwise, and includes a barrow and a cart;
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