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Business as usual — and a £5 fine

16th July 1983, Page 38
16th July 1983
Page 38
Page 38, 16th July 1983 — Business as usual — and a £5 fine
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FINES are an occupational hazard and normal business expense for Benny De-Vries, secretary of a Port Talbot market traders' co-operative. Every Thursday he risks a maximum penalty of £5 for parking a refrigerated van in Llanelli market to sell cut-price frozen food in contravention of a bylaw made 21 years ago.

He has already been prosecuted 14 times and regards it as a great joke. His solicitors claim that when the by-law was passed, mobile frozen-food centres could not have been envisaged. They imply that if the development had been foreseen, parking would have been allowed in the market. Whether this hypothesis excuses law-breaking is dubious. The borough council and Llanelli Chamber of Trade and Commerce certainly don't think so.

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