1. Short title, extent, commencement and provisions.—(1) This Act may be called the Street
Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014.
(2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir*.
(3) It shall come into force on such date1
as the Central Government may, by notification in the
Official Gazette, appoint; and different dates may be appointed for different States and any reference in
any provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed in relation to any State as a reference
to the coming into force of that provision in that State.
(4) The provisions of this Act shall not apply to any land, premises and trains owned and controlled
by the Railways under the Railway Act, 1989 (24 of 1989).
STATE AMENDMENT
Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh
Section 1.--In sub-section (2), omit 'except the State of Jammu and Kashmir’.
[Vide Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Adaptation of Central Laws) Second
Order, 2020, Notification No. S.O. 3465(E), dated (5-10-2020) and vide Union Territory of Ladakh
Reorganisation (Adaptation of Central Laws) Order, 2020, notification No. S.O. 3774(E), dated
(23-10-2020).]
2. Definitions.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) “appropriate Government” means in respect of matters relating to,—
(i) a Union territory without Legislature, the Central Government;
(ii) the Union territories with Legislature, the Government of the National Capital Territory
of Delhi or, as the case may be, the Government of Union territory of Puducherry;
(iii) a State, the State Government;
(b) “holding capacity” means the maximum number of street vendors who can in any vending
zone and has been determined as such by the local authority on the commendations of the Town
Vending Committee;
(c) “local authority” means a Municipal Corporation or a Municipal Council or a Nagar
Panchayat, by whatever name called, or the Cantonment Board, or as the case may be, a civil area
committee appointed under section 47 of the Cantonment Act, 2006 (41 of 2006) or such other body
1. 1st May, 2014, vide notification No. S.O. 1185 (E), dated 1st May, 2014, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Sec. 3(ii).
*. Vide notification No. S.O. 3912(E), dated 30th October, 2019, this Act is made applicable to the Union territory of Jammu and
Kashmir and the Union territory of Ladakh.
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entitled to function as a local authority in any city or town to provide civic services and regulate street
vending and includes the “planning authority” which regulates the land use in that city or town;
(d) “mobile vendors” means street vendors who carry out vending activities in designated area by
moving from one place to another place vending their goods and services;
(e) “natural market” means a market where sellers and buyers have traditionally congregated for
the sale and purchase of products or services and has been determine das such by the local authority
on the recommendations of the Town Vending Committee;
(f) “notification” means a notification published in the Official Gazette and the term “notify” shall
be construed accordingly;
(g) “planning authority” means an Urban Development Authority or any other authority in any
city or town designated by the appropriate Government as responsible for regulating the land use by
defining the precise extent of areas for any particular activity in the master plan or development plan
or zonal plan or layout plan or any other spatial plan which is legally enforceable under the applicable
Town and Country Planning Act or the Urban Development Act or the Municipal Act, as the case
may be;
(h) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act by the appropriate Government;
(i) “Schedule” means the Schedule annexed to this Act;
(j) “scheme” means a scheme framed by the appropriate Government under section 38;
(k) “stationary vendors” means street vendors who carry out vending activities on regular basis at
a specific location;
(l) “street vendor” means a person engaged in vending of articles, goods, wares, food items or
merchandise of everyday use or offering services to the general public, in a street, lane, sidewalk,
footpath, pavement, public park or any other public place or private area, from a temporary built up
structure or by moving from place to place and includes hawker, peddler, squatter and all other
synonymous terms which may be local or region specific; and the words “street vending” with their
grammatical variations and cognate expressions, shall be construed accordingly;
(m) “Town Vending Committee” means the body constituted by the appropriate Government
under section 22;
(n) “vending zone” means an area or a place or a location designated as such by the local
authority, on the recommendations of the Town Vending Committee, for the specific use by street
vendors for street vending and includes footpath, side walk, pavement, embankment, portions of a
street, waiting area for public or any such place considered suitable for vending activities and
providing services to the general public.
(2) Any reference in this Act to any enactment or any provision thereof, shall, in relation to an area in
which such enactment or such provision is not in force be construed as a reference to the corresponding
law, if any, in force in that area.
STATE AMENDMENT
Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir
Section 2.-In sub-section (1), in clause (a), in sub-clause (ii), after “the Government of the National
Capital Territory of Delhi”, insert “the Government of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir”
[Vide Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Adaptation of Central Laws) Second
Order, 2020, Notification No. S.O. 3465(E), dated (5-10-2020).]