Bills

These bills progressed through the 2011-12 session of Parliament. All are private bills with identical wording similar to that introduced in 1999 City of Westminster Act and are the subject of Petitions by pedlars. Pedlars were due in Select Committee in September 2011 to object to the potential victim status that they impose on pedlary.
The 4 bills below became Acts in March 2013 and the City of Westminster Bill was withdrawn by the promoters for the current session of parliament.
A full parliamentary submission by pedlars of the case against private bills is available at this link:
https://pedlars.info/new/images/stories/roberts/full-submission-3-days.pdf
Canterbury Borough Council Bill – link to the bill and pedlar petitions against the bill
Reading Borough Council Bill –  link to the bill and pedlar petitions against the bill
Leeds City Council Bill –  link to the bill and pedlar petitions against the bill
Nottingham Borough Council Bill –  link to the bill and pedlar petitions against the bill
City of Westminster Bill –  link to the bill and pedlar petitions against the bill
 
Pedlars have stopped some 50 other private bills from joining the bandwagon of piecemeal legislation reaching the statute book. Subsequent to the above 4 bills becoming incomprehensible Acts, the corridoors of power in government launched a co-called consultation in Nov 2012 but with a predetermined agenda to repeal the Pedlars Act on the most fragile of arguments falsely justified as fulfilling the aims of a European Services Directive. The policy communications with government BIS and pedlars.info are chronologically laid out at this link HMG Consultation.