Section 18 — Exceptions for certain kinds of trading
This version in force from 2020-08-25
Snapshot: 2026-08-24
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(1) Section 16(1) does not apply in relation to any activity falling within any of the Heads set out in—
(a) subsection (2) (premises adjoining a highway);
(b) subsection (3) (public facilities);
(c) subsection (5) (motor vehicles);
(d) subsection (6) (the Organising Committee).
(2) Head 1 is—
(a) selling an item, or offering or exposing an item for sale, to a person who is in premises adjoining a highway;
(b) providing, or offering to provide, a service to such a person;
(c) providing a service that consists of doing something in relation to premises adjoining a highway (including, among other things, delivering an item to such premises);
(d) appealing for money or other property from a person who is in premises adjoining a highway.
(3) Head 2 is—
(a) providing a public lavatory;
(b) providing a permanent public call box;
(c) providing an automated teller machine.
(4) In subsection (3)(b) “public call box” has the same meaning as in Class A of Part 16 of Schedule 2 to the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/596).
(5) Head 3 is—
(a) providing motor vehicle parking services in a building, or on other land, designed or generally used for the parking of motor vehicles;
(b) providing motor vehicle cleaning services on private land generally used for the provision of those services;
(c) selling a motor vehicle on private land generally used for the sale of motor vehicles;
(d) providing motor vehicle breakdown or recovery services.
(6) Head 4 is anything done by the Organising Committee.