THE SHREWSBURY GENERAL AND CATTLE MARKETS

BYELAWS

THE SHREWSBURY GENERAL AND CATTLE MARKETS

The Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Shrewsbury in exercise of their powers under Section 42 of the Markets and Fairs Clauses Act 1847, Section 70 of the Shrewsbury Improvement Act 1855, and Section 61 of the Food and Drugs Act 1955, hereby make the following byelaws:-

PART I - INTERPRETATION

1. In these byelaws, except where the context otherwise requires -
"the Council" means the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Shrewsbury acting by the Council;
"market hours" means the hours appointed by the Council for the holding of a market;
"cattle" includes horse, ass, mule, ram, ewe, wether, goat, kid or swine;
"poultry" includes fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, or any other bird or fowl, both wild and tame;
"goods" includes provisions, marketable commodities, and articles;
"game" includes any hare or rabbit;
"sell" and "sale" include exposing and exposure for sale;
"stall" includes a building standing or any place for the display or exhibition of goods;
"fire" includes any brazier, combustion stove, oil, electric or gas fire or other heating apparatus;
"market place" means the Shrewsbury General Market and the Shrewsbury Cattle Markets at Smithfield Road and Harlescott, Shrewsbury.

PART II - BYELAWS WITH RESPECT TO THE CATTLE MARKETS

2.  In this part of these byelaws "cattle market" means the Council's cattle markets at Smithfield and Harlescott or either of them.

3.  (a) Where the Council appropriate any part of the cattle market as a ring for the sale by auction of cattle or any class of cattle no person shall remain in the sale ring or in the gangway surrounding the same during the time that such sale ring is being used for the sale of cattle.

(b) No person shall enter into or remain in any pen from which a sale by auction of any calves or sheep is taking place.
 Provided that this byelaw shall not prohibit the owner and one drover nominated by the person selling the animals remaining in the ring or pen for the purpose of controlling the animals.

4.  No person shall enter into or remain in any pen in the market containing swine or any pen which has contained swine which has not been properly cleansed since the swine were moved therefrom;

Provided that this byelaw shall not prohibit a person entering any such pen for the purpose of driving swine into or out of the same or of cleansing the said pen.

5.  No person other than a person authorised by the Council shall remove any straw or letter from any pen containing or which has contained swine.

6.  No person shall without the consent of the Council or their duly authorised agent, bring any cattle or poultry or game into the cattle market, for purposes of sale, more than one hour before the market opens or allow them to remain there more than one hour after the market closes.

7.  The animals mentioned in this byelaw shall, when placed in any pen in the cattle market be afforded a space not less than that set opposite their names:-

(i) a horse, ox or cow  8ft by 3ft 3 in.
(ii) calf, mule or ass   5ft by 2ft
(iii) a ram, ewe, wether, lamb, goat, kid or pig 4ft by 1ft 3 in.

 Provided that this byelaw shall not apply to the Council's cattle market at Smithfield Road.

8.  A person shall not for the purpose of sale bring into or allow to remain upon any part of the market place any cattle, poultry or game belonging to him or in his charge which although not subject to exclusion in pursuance of any order or regulation made and in force under and for the purposes of the Diseases of Animals Act 1950, or any amendment thereof is diseased or unhealthy or is in a state of emaciation.  Where an authorised officer of the Council or of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food suspects any such cattle, poultry or game of being so diseased, unhealthy or emaciated and requires the same to be moved to an isolation pen or other place for examination, the person in charge of such cattle, poultry or game shall cause the same to be moved to such pen or place forthwith.

9.  Every person who shall bring or cause to be brought into the market place any animal shall cause such animal to be placed in the pen assigned by the officer in charge for the purpose and shall cause every bull and any other animal showing a disposition to be wild or unruly to be securely tied in such pen.

10. On any day appointed for the holding of the market:-

(a) no vehicle shall be halted in any avenue or passage in the market place or in the immediate approaches thereto;
 (b) no animals shall be loaded or unloaded from any vehicle other than at the loading bays, ramps or other places indicated by notices affixed or set up by the Council near to such places and no vehicle shall be halted at such places for longer than is reasonably required for the loading or unloading of animals:
 (c) no vehicle shall, except for loading or unloading as permitted by the preceding provisions of this byelaw, be parked elsewhere than in the place duly appointed by the Council and indicated by a notice or notices affixed or set up near to such place.

11. Where the Council by notice specify the direction in which any cattle or vehicles shall be taken or driven in any part of the cattle market no person shall take or drive or cause to be taken or driven any cattle or vehicle other than in the direction so specified.

12. A person who shall drive any vehicle in any road or way within the market place shall not proceed at a greater rate of speed than four miles per hour.

13. No person other than an authorised officer of the Council shall burn any hay, straw, refuse or other material in any part of the cattle market.

PART III - BYELAWS WITH RESPECT TO THE GENERAL MARKET

14. In this part of these byelaws "general market" means the Council's general produce market at Bellstone.

15. No person other than the tenant of a stall held on a weekly tenancy or on lease shall allow any poultry, game or goods belonging to him or in his charge to remain in the general market more than half an hour after the time appointed for closing the market.

16. No person shall cleave any carcase or meat in the general market unless it is on a cleaving board or chopping block, or is properly attached to or suspended from hooks provided for the purpose.
17. A person shall not, except in a shop, pluck poultry in the general market.

18. Every person who lights a fire in any part of the general market shall adopt all such precautions as may be reasonably necessary to prevent damage or discomfort through the emission of smoke therefrom.  Such person shall cause a suitable guard to be provided and used in such a manner as to prevent injury to any person or property by reason of such fire, and shall cause such fire to be extinguished not later than half an hour after the market closes.

19. Every tenant or occupier of a stall shall:-

(a) cause the stall and every avenue or passage in connection with the stall whether used by him alone or in conjunction with any other person to be properly cleansed before and after market hours, and as often as may be necessary during those hours;
 (b) cause all refuse from the stall, and all refuse arising from the loading and unloading of articles required in connection with the stall, to be placed in a receptacle provided by the Council for the purpose.

20. Every person conveying goods to or from the general market shall, as often as necessary, and without creating a nuisance or obstruction, remove or cause to be removed from every avenue or passage in the market place, and from the footway or roadway of the immediate approaches thereto, all refuse arising from the conveyance of goods by him upon or through the avenue, passage, footway or roadway.

21. No person shall wilfully throw or drop any waste fruit or vegetable matter, or any other market litter, in any avenue or passage in the market place in a manner likely to cause injury to any person.

PART IV - BYELAWS WITH RESPECT TO BOTH THE GENERAL AND CATTLE MARKETS

22. Where the Council:-

(a) appropriate any part of the market place for the sale of cattle, poultry, game or goods or of any class of cattle, poultry, game or goods, or for sales by auction, and
 (b) display in a conspicuous place a public notice to that effect, no person shall sell cattle, poultry, game or goods, or hold sales by auction, except in accordance with the terms of that appropriation.

23. Where the Council arrange a rota of names of persons regulating the order in which such persons shall conduct sales by auction in certain parts of the market and display in a conspicuous place a public notice to that effect no person shall hold sales by auction except in accordance with such rota.

24. On any day appointed for the holding of the market no person shall bring into the market place or the immediate approaches thereto, or allow to stand therein, any cattle, poultry, game or goods belonging to him or in his charge in such a manner as to cause obstruction, nor cause any goods whatsoever to be so placed as to project beyond the front or side line of any stall.

25. A person shall not in the market place tout for, or take an order for, any cattle, poultry, game or goods not in the market, for which toll would be paid if the same had been offered for sale in such market.

26. A person shall not obstruct or lay hand on persons resorting to the market place in soliciting their custom.

27. A person shall not in the market place behave in a disorderly manner.

28. Every person who shall use any water tap in the market place shall cause the same to be properly turned off immediately after he shall have finished using such tap.

29. A person other than an officer or servant of the Council shall not without the permission of the Council post any bill or placard other than a description of goods for sale in the market place which shall be displayed on notice boards provided or approved by the Council, in or on any part of the market place.

30. Any person who offends against any of the provisions of these byelaws shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five pounds.

31. The byelaws with respect to the Shrewsbury general and cattle markets which were made by the Council on the ninth day of March one thousand nine hundred and thirty two, except the byelaw regulating the number of animals in pens which shall remain in force with respect to the cattle market at Smithfield Road, are hereby revoked.