STREET COLLECTIONS



STREET COLLECTIONS
AN ORDINANCE TO REGULATE AND CONTROL THE COLLECTION OF MONEY OR THE SALE OF ARTICLES FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN STREETS OR PUBLIC PLACES.
Ordinance Nos,
47 of 1935
61 of 1939
3 of 1946
Act Nos,
38 of 1958
[2nd December
, 1935
]
Short title.

1 This Ordinance may be cited as the Street Collections Regulation Ordinance.

Power to make regulations to control street collections.

2.

(1) The Minister may make regulations with respect to the places where and the conditions under which persons may be permitted in any street or public place within the administrative limits of any local authority to collect money or to sell articles for the benefit of charitable or other purposes.

(2) Every regulation made by the Minister shall be brought before Parliament by a motion that such regulation shall be approved. No regulation shall have effect unless it has been approved by Parliament, nor until notification of such approval has been published in the Gazette.

(3) A regulation made by the Minister when approved by Parliament shall, upon the notification of such approval in the Gazette, be as valid and effectual as if it were herein enacted.

Regulations not to affect ordinary trade

3. A regulation made under section 2 shall not apply to the selling of articles in any street or public place when the articles are sold in the ordinary course of trade, and for the purpose of earning a livelihood , and no representation is made by or on behalf of the seller that any part of the proceeds of sale will be devoted to any charitable purpose.

Penalty for breach of regulations.

4. Any person who acts in contravention of any regulation made under section 2 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to fine not exceeding one hundred rupees.

Interpretation.

5. In this Ordinance , unless the context otherwise requires –

” local authority ” includes any Municipal Council, Urban Council, Town Council or Village Council;

“street” includes any highway and any public bridge, road , lane, footway, square, court, alley or passage whether a throughware or not.

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