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London Local Authorities Bill [Lords]

I see where my hon. Friend is coming from, but clause 9 does send out a message, because I do not see such people as street traders. They may well have just one vehicle to sell, and they have to put it somewhere, but, as we have seen from the case to which I referred earlier, there is a danger that it would be caught by the clause. I also draw the attention of the House to another problem that I have identified with the clause. The clause is headed, ““Street trading: vehicles and the internet”” and deals specifically and only with"““exposed or offered for sale on the internet””," in subsection (2). It does not deal with the many other ways in which a vehicle might be offered for sale in the modern world without actually being said to be ““on the internet””. Perhaps the biggest example is when a company has an intranet. An intranet is by all definitions, as far I have been able to check in my research, not regarded—

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Reference

540 c838-9 

Session

2010-12

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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