Statutes

The Statutes that affect pedlary are in date order.
From 1999 onwards certain Private Bills beginning with the City of Westminster were introduced to alter the exemption for pedlary from street trading control. The same altered text runs through all subsequent Private Acts and remains unsafe and untested by Judicial Review. 
Pedlars should be aware of these local Acts that seek to circumvent the national Pedlars Act. Each private Act is named and marked with – Restraint of Trade to identify jurisdictions where a pedlar may encounter incidents when trading.
The government department BIS is responsible for ongoing consultation about pedlary and has found that ALL Restraint of Trade Private Acts are currently “illegal” under the European Services Directive and require amendment. As at December 2015 they remain unaltered.
Pedlars began Petitioning Parliament against these private bills in 2007 and some 50 further bills were in the pipeline but have subsequently collapsed following Reading, Leeds, Canterbury & Nottingham in 2013.