I am grateful for that clarification.
I do not wish to detain the House, but I want to repeat the definition of a pedlar in the 1871 Act, quoted by my hon. Friend the Member for Cotswold (Mr. Clifton-Brown):"““The term 'pedlar' means any hawker, pedlar, petty chapman, tinker, caster of metals, mender of chairs, or other person who, without any horse or other beast bearing or drawing burden, travels and trades on foot and goes from town to town or to other men's houses, carrying to sell or exposing for sale any goods””."
The movement aspect of that is important. Also, it was written for a very different time. So long ago was the legislation drafted, that the Liberal party was in charge of Great Britain. That is how long ago it was—Victorian Britain. It was the time of Gladstone and Disraeli. It was Dickensian Britain.
Manchester City Council Bill [Lords](By Order)
Proceeding contribution from
Tobias Ellwood
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 12 June 2008.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Manchester City Council Bill [Lords](By Order).
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