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Information for market traders for the 2010 Fair

Food sales
A pre-booking system for all food traders selling from the market fields will be implemented for the 2010 Fair.  Find out more about the booking system here.

All food vehicles and stalls operating during the Fair are inspected by Eden District Council’s Environmental Health Officers. Operators are required to comply with the Food Hygiene (England) Regulations 2006 and should be registered under these Regulations with their local council. All traders meeting the required standard are issued with a sticker which indicates who has inspected the vehicle or stall and when. Instances of non compliance will be dealt with either by removal of the trader off the site or by informal or formal action, depending on the seriousness of the situation, under the above Regulations or Food Safety Act 1990.

Non Food Traders
The pre-booking system will be extended to all market traders from the 2011 Fair onwards. Details of the permit scheme will be handed out to traders at the 2010 Fair and further information will be published on this website prior to the 2011 Fair.


It is illegal to sell animals
The Pet Animals Act 1951, as amended in 1983, prohibits the sale of pets in a public place such as a market. The activity of selling animals as pets from a market or public place is therefore illegal. It is not unusual to find persons selling for example caged birds and puppies at the Fair, although this tradition has reduced significantly over the last few years due to a number of successful prosecutions for such sales being taken by the RSPCA. The RSPCA in conjunction with Eden District Council and the Police will continue to take formal action where such sales are witnessed.

BB Guns
The sale of BB Guns at the Fair is prohibited and anyone found selling them will be ejected from the market fields and may be refused a trading permit at future Fairs.

Trading standards
Trading standards officers will again have a heightened presence at the 2010 Fair and will be prosecuting traders breaking the law in areas such as sale of counterfeit goods.

 

Images from the fair...