Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982

55Touting

(1)Any person who—

(a)in a public place—

(i)touts for the purpose of selling or advertising anything or otherwise obtaining custom so as to give any other person reasonable cause for annoyance ; or

(ii)importunes any other person for that purpose so as to give that, or any other, person reasonable cause for annoyance ; and

(b)fails to desist when required to do so by a constable in uniform,

shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding £50.