S.L. 441.7 Art. 25Licensing of street hawkers.

(1) An individual who carries out any commercial activity from any street, which activity is not exercised from an open-air market, shall make an application to act as a street hawker on the appropriate form to the Trade Licensing Unit. A licence issued for a street hawker is a personal licence and does not permit anybody else to act instead of the street hawker.

The licence issued by the Trade Licensing Unit shall indicate the street hawker as a non-food licence hawker or as a food related items licence hawker. In the case that the activity concerns the selling of food items prior approval by the health authorities must be obtained.

If a licensee is in possession of more than one category of licence at one particular point in time for different categories of food and other non-food items, that licensee shall only make use of one licence and shall restrict his commercial activity to one specific category as he may decide:

Provided that with reference to food related items the Trade Licensing Unit, following a recommendation by the health authorities, may order the licensee to sell or not to sell specific items as ordered by the health authorities. Likewise with reference to non-food related items the Trade Licensing Unit following a recommendation by the Police, may issue an order to the licensee to restrict the selling of any item that may be causing an infringement of public order:

Provided further that without prejudice to what is prescribed in the licence as items to be sold, a street hawker that sells fruits and vegetables shall not also sell ice-cream, pre-cooked items, alcohol and all other beverages except the selling of water.

(2) In the case of a street hawker using a motor vehicle to carry on the commercial activity shall have premises available where to garage the motor vehicle. The registration number of the vehicle used for hawking and the address of the premises used for the purpose of garaging the vehicle used by the hawker must be clearly indicated on the application and the trading licence. Any change in the vehicle or garage must be notified to the Trade Licensing Unit within ten (10) working days after the change occurs. No application shall be accepted and processed by the Trade Licensing Unit if the address of the garage or any other address for the store where goods are stored are not given. The Trade Licensing Unit shall have the right to inspect such premises and to demand any documentation that proves the ownership of the premises when the application indicates the use of such premises by more than one applicant.

(3) Every such licence issued has to include the following information:

(i) the name of the licence holder;

(ii) a legally valid identification document of the licence holder;

(iii) a passport size photo of the licence holder;

(iv) the address of the garage of the licence holder;

(v) the nature of the hawking activity; and

(vi) the date when the licence was issued.