Chapter 66 laws of Belize
"trade" means any business in the course of which any goods, wares, merchandise or provisions are sold and includes a business in which produce or goods
of any sort are exported from Belize and any vocation set out in sections 27
and 31 but shall not include any business set out in the First Schedule.
(2) Every person who wishes to commence a trade within the limits of
any town shall, before he commences such a business, submit to the Board of
the town wherein he proposes to set up his trade, an application in writing in the
form set out in the Third Schedule signed by him setting out the nature of the
trade he proposes to set up, his name and address, his place of birth and
nationality and such other particulars as may be relevant to his application.
9. No person or body of persons shall carry on any trade within the limits of
any town without a licence granted by the Board for that town, except that in
the case of an existing business it shall be lawful to continue to carry on that
business while an application for a licence is pending before the Board.
10.-(1) Any person who contravenes section 9 is guilty of an offence and is
liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and
shall cease to carry on the business concerned. Such person shall further not
be entitled either by himself or in association with others to a licence to trade for
a period of two years from the date of his conviction.
26.-(1) Every person who-
(a) in any street or public place in any town sells or exposes for sale imported goods; or
(b) in any town acts as a pedlar or hawker of imported
goods,
shall obtain from the Board for that town a licence which, according to the
nature of the goods to be sold, shall be in one of the following forms, that is to
say-
(i) a special pedlar's licence authorising the
holder, personally, to sell imported jewellery
and all other imported goods, the prescribed
fee in respect of which shall be paid in
advance; or
(ii) a general pedlar's licence authorising the
holder, personally, to sell imported goods
other than jewellery, the prescribed fee in
respect of which shall be paid in advance.
(2) Such licence shall be taken out in the name of one individual only
who shall have the exclusive right to act thereunder.
(3) Such licence shall in the case of an applicant who produces a
certificate of residence issued under section 29 be in force for one year from
the day whereon the licence is granted and in all other cases shall be in force
for such period not exceeding seven days as the Board shall state therein.
(4) Every pedlar, hawker or other person who has obtained a
licence under this section shall at all times on demand produce and show such
licence to any justice of the peace, police officer, person to whom such
pedlar, hawker or other person offers his goods for sale, or officer of the
Board.
(5) Every pedlar, hawker, or other person who refuses on demand
to show his licence to, and allow it to be read and a copy thereof taken by
any of the persons authorised under subsection (4) to demand it, is guilty of
an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five
dollars for each offence.
(6) Every person who sells or exposes for sale, or acts as a pedlar
or hawker of imported jewellery or other imported goods without the licence
required by this section is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary
conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.
Enforce it!