San Fernando and Arima Hucksters, Pedlars, and Porters
SAN FERNANDO AND ARIMA HUCKSTERS,
PEDLARS AND PORTERS ACT

CHAPTER 84:08

LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

Act
3 of 1922

Amended by
45 of 1979

51/1980

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Note on Subsidiary Legislation
This Chapter contains no subsidiary legislation.

Note on Adaptation
1. Certain fees in this Chapter were increased by the Commission under paragraph 4

of the Second Schedule to the Law Revision Act (Ch.3:03). Where this occurs, a marginal
reference in the form normally indicating an amendment is made to LN 51/1980
(the Legal Notice by which the President’s approval was signified).

2. Under paragraph 6 of the Second Schedule to the Law Revision Act (Ch. 3:03) the
Commission amended certain references to public officers in this Chapter. The Minister’s
approval of the amendments was signified by LN 120/1980, but no marginal reference is
made to this Notice where any such amendment is made in the text.

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CHAPTER 84:08

SAN FERNANDO AND ARIMA HUCKSTERS,
PEDLARS AND PORTERS ACT

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
SECTION

1. Short title.
2. Application of Act.
3. Interpretation.
4. Licences to porters, pedlars, and hucksters.

Power to take unlicensed pedlar and his goods before Magistrate.
Penalty for acting without licence.

5. Term of and fees for licences.
6. Register of licences.
7. Requisition for licence.
8. Evidence and false particulars.
9. Form of licence.

10. Change of abode of licensee.
11. Forging or counterfeiting licence.
12. Porters’ badges.
13. Hucksters’ and pedlars’ badges.
14. Penalty for contravening section 12 or 13.
15. Porters’ fares.
16. Porters bound to hire themselves.
17. Power to add to or vary list of articles, licences and fares in Schedules.
18. Compensation to porters for loss of time.
19. Penalty for demanding more than legal fare.
20. Procedure.
21. Application of fines.
22. Licences under the laws as to marketable commodities, milk and

intoxicating liquor.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
SECOND SCHEDULE.
THIRD SCHEDULE.

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CHAPTER 84:08

SAN FERNANDO AND ARIMA HUCKSTERS,
PEDLARS AND PORTERS ACT

An Act relating to Hucksters, Pedlars, and Porters in San
Fernando and Arima.

[10TH MARCH 1922]

1. This Act may be cited as the San Fernando and Arima
Hucksters, Pedlars, and Porters Act.

2. This Act shall apply to the City of San Fernando and the
Borough of Arima.

3. In this Act—
“Corporation” means the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the

City of San Fernando or the Borough of Arima, as the case
may be;

“Town Clerk” means the Chief Executive Officer and Treasurer
of the City of San Fernando or the Borough of Arima, as the
case may be.

4. (1) No person shall do any of the following acts within
limits of the City of San Fernando or the Borough of Arima without
having first obtained a licence from the Corporation under the hand
of the Chief Executive Officer, that is to say—

(a) ply, hire or engage himself as a porter for hire or
reward; or

(b) follow the trade or business of a pedlar or
travelling huckster, or as such pedlar or travelling
huckster to sell or barter, or offer or expose for
sale or barter, any merchandise, goods, or
provisions, save and except the merchandise,
goods, provisions, and other things specified in
the First Schedule.

(2) Any member of the Police Service may demand from
any person travelling as or carrying on the trade of a pedlar the
production of his licence, and unless such person on such demand

1950 Ed.
Ch. 39 No. 10.
3 of 1922.

Commencement.

Short title.

Application
of Act.

Interpretation.

Licences to
porters, pedlars,
and hucksters.

First Schedule.

Power to take
unlicensed
pedlar and his
goods before
Magistrate.

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produces a licence still in force, the person demanding the same may
take the pedlar with his goods to the nearest Magistrate who shall
have jurisdiction to try the offender for carrying on the trade of a
pedlar without the licence required by law, although no act of trading
may be proved to have been done within the district of such Magistrate.

(3) Any person who acts in contravention of this section
is liable to a fine of four hundred dollars.

5. (1) All such licences shall be granted either for one year,
or for three or six months.

(2) Every such licence, whenever issued, shall expire, in
the case of—

(a) a licence for one year, on the 31st December next
following the date of its issue;

(b) a licence for three months, on the last day of
March, June, September, or December next
following the date of its issue;

(c) a licence for six months, on the last day of June
or December next following the date of its issue.

(3) There shall be paid to the Chief Executive Officer for
the use of the City of San Fernando or the Borough of Arima in
respect of such licences such sums of money as are specified in
the Second Schedule.

6. The Chief Executive Officer shall, in a proper book to be
kept by him for the purpose, enter the name of every person taking
out a licence under this Act, the number of every such licence, the
date on which and the time for which such licence has been granted,
and the sum paid for it. A copy of an entry made in such book duly
certified by the Chief Executive Officer shall be accepted as
evidence in any Court.

7. (1) Before any licence under this Act is granted, a
requisition for the licence shall be made and signed by the person
requiring to be licensed.

(2) In every such requisition there shall be set forth the
given name and surname of the person requiring to be licensed
and his place of residence.

Penalty for
acting without
licence.

Term of
and fees for
licences.

Second
Schedule.

Register of
licences.

Requisition
for licence.

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(3) Every such requisition shall be left at the office of the
Chief Executive Officer.

8. (1) Every requisition for a licence shall be received as
evidence and be deemed proof of all matters therein contained as
against the party applying for such licence.

(2) Any person who, on applying for a licence, does not
set forth truly in such requisition any of the particulars hereby
required to be set forth, is liable for each offence to a fine of one
hundred dollars.

9. Every licence shall bear the date and the day on which it is
given, and shall have and contain a distinguishing number, the
given name and surname of the licensee and his place of residence,
and the term for which the licence is granted.

10. (1) As often as any licensee changes his residence or
office of business, he shall forthwith give notice of such change in
writing signed by him to the Chief Executive Officer and shall
at the same time produce the licence to the Chief Executive Officer,
who shall endorse on it a memorandum specifying the particulars
of the change.

(2) A licensee who fails to comply with this section is
liable for each offence to a fine of one hundred dollars.

11. Any person who forges or counterfeits, or causes or
procures to be forged or counterfeited, any licence under this
Act is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for
twelve months.

12. Every person licensed to follow the trade of a porter, while
plying for hire or while hired, shall bear on a conspicuous part of
his right arm a metal plate or badge having the word “Porter” and
the distinguishing number of his licence painted thereon in letters
and figures not less than one inch in height and of a different colour
from the ground upon which the same are painted.

13. (1) Every person licensed to follow the trade or business
of a pedlar or travelling huckster shall cause his name and the

Evidence and
false particulars.

Form of licence.

Change of
abode of
licensee.

Forging or
counterfeiting
licence.

Porters’ badges.

Hucksters’ and
pedlars’ badges.

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words “Licensed Huckster” or “Licensed Pedlar,” as the case may
be, and the distinguishing number of his licence, to be painted on
some conspicuous part of the outside of every trunk, box, tray,
basket, or other receptacle or thing in which he shall carry about
or expose any goods for sale, in letters and figures not less than
one inch in height and in a different colour from the ground upon
which the same are painted.

(2) No pedlar or huckster shall carry on his business on
Sundays or any public holiday.

14. Any licensee under this Act who fails to comply
with section 12 or 13 is liable for each offence to a fine of two
hundred dollars.

15. Every licensed porter is entitled, within the limits of the
City of San Fernando or the Borough of Arima for which he is
licensed, to demand for his hire the fares set forth in the Third
Schedule, and may recover the same on complaint to a Magistrate,
together with reasonable compensation for his loss of time in
attending to make and establish his complaint.

16. (1) Every licensed porter plying for hire within the limits
of the City of San Fernando or the Borough of Arima for which he
is licensed shall, unless actually hired or having other reasonable
excuse, be obliged to hire himself to any person desirous of hiring
him within the limits aforesaid, and to take and carry such load, and
to go therewith to such places within the limits aforesaid, as he may
lawfully and reasonably be directed.

(2) No porter shall be compelled to carry any heavier load
than fifty-six pounds.

17. (1) The Corporation may by resolution add to or vary the
list of articles in the First Schedule, alter or add to the fees payable
for licences in the Second Schedule and alter the table of fares in
the Third Schedule, but no such resolution shall take effect until it
has been approved by the Minister and published in the Gazette.

(2) Production of a copy of the Gazette purporting to
contain any such resolution and stating that such resolution has

Penalty for
contravening
section 12
or 13.

Porters’ fares.

Third Schedule.

Porters bound to
hire themselves.

Power to add to
or vary list of
articles, licences
and fares in
Schedules.

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been approved by the Minister shall be sufficient evidence that
such resolution was duly passed and approved as required by this
Act and of the terms and date thereof.

18. If any licensed porter in civil and explicit terms declares
to any person desirous of hiring him that he is actually hired, or
that he is not plying for hire, or gives any other reasonable excuse
for refusing to hire himself, and afterwards, notwithstanding such
reply, is summoned to answer for his refusal to hire himself and
proves that he was actually hired or that he was not plying for hire
or that he had other reasonable excuse for refusing to hire himself,
and it does not appear that he used uncivil language or that he
improperly conducted himself towards the complainant, the
Magistrate shall order the complainant to pay the porter such
compensation for his loss of time in attending to make his defence
as the Magistrate thinks reasonable.

19. Any licensed porter who demands more than his legal fare
is liable for each offence to a fine of one hundred dollars.

20. The form and manner of procedure in all cases arising
under this Act (except an offence under section 11) shall be that
provided by the Summary Courts Act.

21. All penalties recovered under this Act shall be paid to the
Magistrate for the use of the Corporation.

22. Nothing in this Act or in the First Schedule shall be
construed to legalise the sale of fresh meat, fish, or turtle, or other
marketable commodities as defined by the Municipal Corporations
Act without the licences required by that Act, or to legalise the
sale of milk without the licences required by any bye-laws made
or to be made under the Public Health Ordinance, or to legalise the
sale of any intoxicating liquor as defined by the Liquor Licences
Act without the licences required by that Act.

Compensation
to porters for
loss of time.

Penalty for
demanding more
than legal fare.

Procedure.

Ch. 4:20.

Application of
fines.

Licences under
the laws as to
marketable
commodities,
milk and
intoxicating
liquor.
Ch. 25:04.
Ch. 12 No. 4.
(1950 Ed.).
Ch. 84:10.
First Schedule.

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FIRST SCHEDULE

ARTICLES WHICH MAY BE SOLD
WITHOUT A LICENCE

Fresh fish, milk, fruit, vegetables, ground provisions, meat, game, poultry,
eggs, bread, confectionery, ice cream, mineral waters or any goods, wares or
merchandise the growth or produce of or manufactured from the produce of
Trinidad and Tobago, or any books, pamphlets or other literature issued or
published by any religious or educational organisation approved by the Minister.

SECOND SCHEDULE

FEES PAYABLE FOR LICENCES
IN THE CITY OF SAN FERNANDO

Porters, Pedlars and Hucksters: $
A year … … … … … … … 10.00
For every quarter of a year if the licence is taken for less than a year 1.20

IN THE BOROUGH OF ARIMA
Porters, Pedlars and Hucksters:

A year … … … … … … … 4.80
For every quarter of a year if the licence is taken for less than a year 1.20

IN THE CITY OF SAN FERNANDO
The following additional charges shall be made where the pedlar or huckster

employs or uses for transport of his goods:
(a) a porter or a pack animal … … … 24.00
(b) a vehicle other than a motor vehicle … … 48.00
(c) a motor vehicle … … … … 120.00

IN THE BOROUGH OF ARIMA
The following additional charges shall be made where the pedlar or huckster
employs or uses for transport of his goods:

(a) a vehicle other than a motor vehicle … … …10.00
(b) a motor vehicle … … … … 24.00

Section 4.

Section 5.
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THIRD SCHEDULE

PORTERS’ FARES

IN SAN FERNANDO

To or from the Wharf: $
From or to King Street and intermediate places … … 0.10

Do. High Street or Chacon Street as far as the corner of
Penitence Street ... ... … … 0.12

Do. the remainder of High Street, Harris Promenade … 0.15
Do. Penitence Street, St. Vincent Street or any intermediate

street or place except High Street and Chacon Street… 0.20
Do. any place beyond St. Vincent Street to the North thereof

or any distance not exceeding 500 yards from
St. Vincent Street … … … … 0.24

and for each additional 500 yards a further sum of … 0.10
Do. any street or place beyond the foregoing as far as but

not including Pointe-a Pierre Road … … 0.24
Do. Coffee Street as far as the corner of Cipero Street and

Pointe-a-Pierre Road … … … … 0.24
Do. Cipero Street, the remainder of Coffee Street, Royal

Road and Circular Road between Pointe-a-Pierre and
the nearest boundary of the Vista Bella Estate … 0.30

Do. Circular Road beyond the point before mentioned … 0.40
From or to any place not herein specially mentioned, for every one

thousand yards (1,000 yards) … … … … 0.24

Sections 15
and 17.
[45 of 1979].

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