{"longTitle":"To confer powers on Canterbury City Council for the better control of street trading and touting in the city of Canterbury.","summary":"<p>The Bill (as originally introduced) makes provisions relating to street trading and consumer protection in the city, in particular by:</p><ul><li>allowing the Council to regulate services offered on the street as well as the sale of goods </li><li>altering the exemption enjoyed by holders of a pedlar’s certificate from the street trading regime in the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 </li><li>empowering council officers, the police and community support officers to seize goods and equipment when they believe a street trading offence has been committed </li><li>empowering courts to order the forfeiture of such articles</li><li>allowing the council to regulate touting</li><li>enabling council officers, the police and community support officers to serve fixed penalty notices for street trading offences.</li></ul>","sponsors":[],"promoters":[{"organisationName":"Canterbury City Council","organisationUrl":null}],"petitioningPeriod":"Commons: 23 January 2008 to 30 January 2008\r\nLords: 16 January 2010 to 25 January 2010","petitionInformation":"<ul><li>The petitioning period in the House of Commons ended on 30 January 2008.</li><li><span>The petitioning period in the House of Lords ended on 8 February 2010.</span></li></ul>There will be no further opportunity to petition against the Bill in Parliament. <p>No petitions were deposited against the Bill in the House of Commons, 1 petition was deposited in the House of Lords. Petitions can be accessed from the &quot;Bill documents&quot; link on the left hand side of this webpage.</p>","agent":{"name":"Sharpe Pritchard LLP","address":"Elm Yard, 13-16 Elm Street, London WC1X 0BJ","phoneNo":"020 7405 4600","email":"alewis@sharpepritchard.co.uk","website":""},"billId":215,"shortTitle":"Canterbury City Council Act 2013","formerShortTitle":null,"currentHouse":"Unassigned","originatingHouse":"Commons","lastUpdate":"2021-04-09T18:11:09.8617237","billWithdrawn":null,"isDefeated":false,"billTypeId":6,"introducedSessionId":21,"includedSessionIds":[21,22,23,24,25],"isAct":true,"currentStage":{"id":5738,"stageId":11,"sessionId":25,"description":"Royal Assent","abbreviation":"RA","house":"Unassigned","stageSittings":[{"id":5371,"stageId":11,"billStageId":5738,"billId":215,"date":"2013-02-28T00:00:00"}],"sortOrder":20}}