15/07/1930: Collections in Streets Or Public Places.

SAORSTÁT ÉIREANN.

COLLECTIONS IN STREETS OR PUBLIC PLACES.

(Regulations dated 15th July, 1930.)

Regulations made Pursuant to the Police, Factories, etc., (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1916 (6 and 7 Geo. V., Ch. 31, Section 5.)

WHEREAS in pursuance of the powers vested in the Commissioner of the Gárda Síochána by the Police, Factories, etc., (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1916, 6 and 7 Geo 5, Ch. 31, as adapted by Section 19 of the Gárda Síochána Act, 1924 (No. 25 of 1924) and Section 22 of the Police Forces (Amalgamation) Act, 1925 (No. 7 of 1925), Regulations may be made with respect to the places where, and the conditions under which persons may be permitted, in any street or public place in Saorstát Eireann to collect money or sell articles for the benefit of charitable or other purposes.

AND WHEREAS Regulations as aforesaid were made on the 27th day of June, 1918, for the area outside the Dublin Metropolitan Police District and on the 3rd day of July, 1918, for the Dublin Metropolitan Police District.

AND WHEREAS it is expedient that such Regulations should be amended.

NOW I, EOIN O DUBHTHAIGH, Commissioner of the Gárda Síochána, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Acts aforesaid do hereby cancel the Regulations made on the 27th day of June, 1918, and on the 3rd day of July, 1918, and make the following Regulations in substitution therefor:—

1. No collection of money (other than a collection taken at an open-air religious meeting) or sale of any article for the benefit of charitable or other purposes shall be made in any street or public place in any part of Saorstát Eireann unless the person, society, committee or other body of persons responsible for such collection or sale shall have obtained a permit from the Chief Superintendent of the Garda Síochána of the Division in which it is proposed to make such collection or sale.

2. Application for a permit shall be made in writing not later than 14 days before the date on which it is proposed to make the collection or sale, and the application shall be accompanied by a list giving the names and addresses of the promoters and a statement indicating the purpose for which the collection or sale is to be made.

3. No collection or sale shall be made except upon the day and between the hours stated in the permit.

4. No person may assist or take part in any such collection or sale without the authority, written or printed, of the person or body of persons to whom a permit has been granted. Every person so authorised shall produce such written or printed authority forthwith for inspection to any member of the Gárda Síochána on demand.

5. No such collection or sale shall be made in any part of the carriage-way of any street or shall any collection or sale be made on the foot-way or in any public place to the obstruction or annoyance of any person in such street or public place.

6. All persons acting as collectors or vendors shall occupy a stationary position at some place on the footway. Not more than 2 persons shall act as collectors or vendors at the same place, and no person shall collect money or sell articles within 30 yards of the place where any other person or persons are collecting or selling.

7. No person under the age of 16 years shall act or be permitted to act as collector or vendor.

8. No collector or vendor shall use a table for the purpose of any collection or sale so as to cause or be likely to cause obstruction. No table used shall exceed 30 inches in length and 20 inches in width.

9. No collector or vendor shall use a box or other receptacle at the end of a pole intended to reach upper windows or the roofs of conveyances.

10. No collector or vendor shall be accompanied by any animal.

11. No collector or vendor shall importune any person to the annoyance of such person.

12. Every collector and vendor shall carry and present to all contributors or purchasers for the reception of money contributions a box or other receptacle securely closed and sealed in such a way as to prevent the same being opened without such seal being broken, and into this box or other receptacle all contributions shall be immediately placed.

13. A collector or vendor shall not carry any collecting box, receptacle or tray which does not bear displayed prominently thereon the name of the fund for which collection or sale is being made.

14. No payment or reward shall be made to any collector or vendor or other person connected with the promotion of such collection or sale, for, or in respect of, services rendered in connection therewith.

15. Within one month after the date of any such collection or sale the person, society, or committee, or other body of persons responsible therefor, shall, if required to do so by the Chief Superintendent, forward to that Officer a statement with vouchers showing in detail the amount collected and the expenses incurred in connection with such collection or sale, and shall, if required by the Chief Superintendent, satisfy him as to the due and proper application of the proceeds of the collection or sale.

N.B.—The foregoing regulations shall not apply to the selling of articles in any street or public place when the articles are sold in the ordinary course of trade and for the purpose of earning a livelihood, and no representation is made by, or on behalf of, the seller, that any part of the proceeds of sale will be devoted to any charitable purpose.

Any person who acts in contravention of any of the foregoing regulations will be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding 40/- (Forty Shillings) or in the case of a second or subsequent offence not exceeding five pounds.

Dated this 2nd day of July, 1930.

(Signed) EOIN UA DUBHTHAIGH,

Commissioner of the Gárda Síochána.

I, JAMES FITZGERALD-KENNEY, MINISTER FOR JUSTICE, do hereby confirm the foregoing Regulations, and direct that they shall be published in IRIS OIFIGIUIL, and shall come into operation seven days after the date of such publication.

GIVEN under my Seal of Office this 15th day of July, 1930.

(Signed) JAMES FITZGERALD-KENNEY,

Minister for Justice.

S. A. ROCHE.

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