15 March 2013 – Pedlars 1st reply to consultation URN12/605
Consultation Response form for England and Wales ONLY
Consultation on Street Trading and Pedlary Laws – Compliance with the requirements of the European
Services Directive
The Department may, in accordance with the Code of Practice on Access to
Government Information, make available, on public request, individual
responses.
The closing date for this consultation is 15 March 2013.
Name: the following named persons have given written authority to attach their name to a joint reply by pedlars.info to URN12/605 & 606 and accept that information to be made public:
57 named signatories follow…
Organisation (if applicable):
Address:
C/o www.pedlars.info email: pedlars.admin@gmail.com
Please return completed forms to: .pdf copy emailed to Onikosi Rachel
(CCP) rachel.onikosi@bis.gsi.gov.uk 15 March 2013 &
stcompliance@bis.gsi.gov.uk and to each of above named persons
Repeal of the Pedlars Acts:
Question 1: Do you agree with the proposed repeal of the
Pedlars Acts 1871 and 1881 UK-wide?
tick No
HMG admits that it does not have a clear understanding of the national picture and by such admissions rules itself incompetent to draft national legislation. Any claim that the consultation proposes “national” resolution is considered by stakeholders to be fallacious. The Pedlars Act is the only “national” legislation that lends itself to resolving perceived problems.
Parliament directed government to desist from introducing piecemeal legislation and consequential parliamentary time to resolve perceived national problems but the draft proposed legislation from BIS exacerbates the potential for piecemeal legislation at an adoptive local level and fails to resolve private local Acts and is inapplicable in jurisdictions that have no legislation.
The remaining consultation questions beyond Q1 are considered unreasonably biased and irrelevant to stakeholder pedlars.
The impact assessment URN12/606 is considered pathologically delusional.
We urge the Secretary of State to call-in URN12/605 and URN12/606 and engage in stakeholders Third Option Policy with its national legislative amendments at point 6 below as a continuation of government policy during 2008, 2009, 2010, & 2011.
In the absence of any substantive response from BIS to points and questions raised by pedlars willing to enter into this consultation there follows a list of those points and questions that herewith form a partial reply to this consultation.
It is noted that BIS has consistently refused to extend the consultation deadline to enable proper response from pedlar stakeholders and as a result this response is submitted under duress as BIS has failed to clarify or respond to stakeholder’s concerns:
1 Briefing to Minister – 29 September 2012
https://pedlars.info/29-september-2012-briefing-to-minister-re-urn
2 Press Release – 3 December 2012 -How HMG intends to prohibit British pedlars and go against British people as criminals while Britain lays itself open to all others in the EEA…OMG!
https://pedlars.info/press-release-3-december-2012-hmg-prohibition/
3 Briefing & Questions re URN12/605 & 606 – 11 January 2013
https://pedlars.info/11-january-2013-briefing-a-questions-re-urn12605
4 Press Release – 27 January 2013 – Protecting the Crown’s Prerogative Common Law Civil Liberty At Stake
https://pedlars.info/letter-to-the-editor-27-january-2013
5 BIS draft legislation URN12/605 explained – 10 February 2013
https://pedlars.info/10-february-2013-bis-pedlar-policy-scrutiny
6 Pedlars Act amendments as Third Option – 14 February 2013
https://pedlars.info/14-february-2013-pedlars-act-amendments-as-third-option
download the full reply 15 March 2013