S.L. 441.7 Art. 8Street performers.

(1) A trading licence or any other authorisation from the

Trade Licensing Unit shall not be required when a person or a group of persons of not more than six (6) persons in a street or in any other public place, play a musical instrument or instruments or perform a song, mime, statue, dancing or other creative routine or performance and collect any voluntary donations from passers-by who stop to watch their performance.

(2) Activities referred to in sub-regulation (1) may not be performed where and when:

(a) they create an obstruction to the entrance to private or public premises or to any nearby activity; and, or

(b) the noise level they create is a nuisance to any nearby private or public premises or any nearby activity: Provided that a police officer may, on the basis of nonconformity with sub-regulations (1) and (2) or for reasons of public order, public safety or public morality, direct that such performance be stopped or that it be held at an alternative location:

Provided further that a street performer or performers forming part of an activity referred to under regulation 6 shall be permitted to put up their performance if the street performer or performers have been granted a relevant permit by the Commissioner of Police.