Last Change:
06/28/2024
The Trade (Licensing) Act (Cap.101)
Year: 1969
Type: Domestic law
Rights Category: Work & Workplace rights
Description
An Act to amend and consolidate the law relating to trading and other matters connected therewith.
Selected provisions
(1) Subject to subsection (2), no person shall trade in any goods or carry on any business specified in the Schedule to this Act unless he or she is in possession of a trading licence granted to him or her for that purpose under this Act.
(2) No trading licence shall be required in any event for—
(a) the trade of a planter, farmer, gardener, dairyperson or agriculturist in respect of the sale of his or her own dairy or agricultural produce;
(b) the trade of a person in respect of goods bona fide made by him or her by his or her handicraft in or on any premises where he or she normally resides, or by the handicraft of persons normally residing with him or her or who are his or her employees or members of his or her family;
(c) the trade carried on in any market established under the Markets Act;
(d) the sale of tobacco, cigarettes, newspapers, books, nonintoxicating liquor or playing cards by the management of a proprietary or members club to its members in the club premises;
(e) any other trade which the Minister may, by statutory instrument, declare to be a trade for which no trading licence is required under this Act; or
(f) any trade or business in respect of which a separate licence is required by or under any written law.