Your Rights and Duties as an Informal Trader
This guide is meant for informal traders in Accra, Ghana. It covers market traders who sell in public markets. It also covers hawkers who move around or who sell from a fixed place outside markets. And it covers food vendors, porters and those who use push trucks.
This is a guide to the legal framework, set up by the assembly bye-laws, that shapes where traders work, the conditions they work in, what traders' duties are under the law, the powers the authorities have if the bye-laws are broken and how traders can use the law to protect their rights against abuse by public authorities. It is divided into the following sections:
- Section 1 gives an overview of what the law says about vending in public spaces.
- Section 2 looks at some of the main bye-laws that impact informal traders.
- Section 3 focuses on the issue of evictions and confiscation of goods. It outlines the powers the authorities have to evict and confiscate.
- Section 4 looks at possible ways traders can use the law if facing eviction, or if they have been evicted.
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