Pedlars are known only to their own local police authority.
The question is whether a pedlar remained on one spot for any length of time, so effectively inviting customers to come to him.
The effect of those judgments is that a pedlar must keep on the move, apart from when conducting a sale.
Pedlars are supposed to trade only on foot, although they are allowed to push barrows.
Many of those involved in unlicensed street trading are not pedlars and, what is more, make no claim to be so.
I am sorry to ask your indulgence again, but there is a significant difference between the various groups that you have mentioned and pedlars.
The police have been very vigilant indeed in tracking down drug pedlars and people who have drugs in their possession.
Too many people are suffering at the hands of the pill pedlars and jack-the-lads selling seaweed patches and other such nonsense.
