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If required to do so, a pedlar must produce their certificate. Trading without a certificate or allowing somebody else to use it is an offence with a maximum penalty of a fine up to £200. Providing false information when applying for a certificate, or making or carrying a forged certificate is an offence with the maximum penalty of up to 6 months imprisonment.<ref name=":1" /> The Police still use the Act, for example in 2017, Derbyshire police seized the goods of a pedlar trading without a certificate.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.derbyshirealert.co.uk/da/190362/Goods_seized_from_man_trading_without_pedlars_certificate_in_Youlgrave.html|title=Goods seized from man trading without pedlars certificate in Youlgrave|last=|first=|date=|website=www.derbyshirealert.co.uk|language=en-gb|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=25 May 2018}}</ref>
== Debates about the Pedlars Act 1871 ==
Various calls have been made to reform the pedlar laws. Argued is local shopkeepers and retailers view peddling as undesirable and unfair competition, that pedlars are less accountable for any counterfeit or substandard good sold by them, and they cause congestion on certain city centre streets.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hough|first=B|date=2003|title=Licensed street trading and pedlars|url=https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/files/144597/HOUGH_Licensed_Street_Trading_and_Pedlars.pdf|journal=Mountbatten Journal of Legal Studies|volume=7 (12)|pages=5-32|via=}}</ref> Since 1999, pedlars have raise concerns about the attempt of some local government authorities to pass private laws to circumnavigate pedlar laws and restrict their trade,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pedlars.info/statutes-bills-case-law.html|title=Pedlar Legislation|last=|first=|date=|website=pedlars.info|language=en-gb|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=25 May 2018}}</ref> for example, City of Westminster Act 1999<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/1999/1/contents/enacted|title=City of Westminster Act 1999|last=|first=|date=|website=www.legislation.gov.uk|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=25 May 2018}}</ref>, and Maidstone Borough Council Act 2006.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2006/4/contents/enacted|title=Maidstone Borough Council Act 2006|website=www.legislation.gov.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-05-25}}</ref> ▼
Various calls have been made to reform the pedlar laws. The Association of Town & City Management say the current peddling laws cause one of most compex problems about on-street trading.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.100ways.org.uk/street-trading-and-pedlars.html|title=Street Trading & Pedlars|last=Association of Town and City Management|first=|date=2018|website=www.100ways.org.uk|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=25 May 2018}}</ref> Argued is local shopkeepers and retailers view peddling as undesirable and unfair competition. It is said that pedlars are not restricted where they trade and can legitimately stand outside a shop and sell the same goods, they cause congestion on certain city centre street, and are less accountable for any counterfeit or substandard good sold by them, and they cause congestion on certain city centre streets.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hough|first=B|date=2003|title=Licensed street trading and pedlars|url=https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/files/144597/HOUGH_Licensed_Street_Trading_and_Pedlars.pdf|journal=Mountbatten Journal of Legal Studies|volume=7 (12)|pages=5-32|via=}}</ref>
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