Watch Out For Bye Law

Since 1978, the Home Office has offered local authorities a model byelaw which prohibits the use of skateboards and roller skates on footways and carriageways to the danger of other persons lawfully using the footway or carriageway. In 1990, the model byelaw was modified to make it an offence for a person using a skateboard or roller skates to cause not only danger but also nuisance or reasonable grounds for annoyance to other persons using the footway or carriageway.
Check with your Local authorities which version of the bye law they have enforce
Some do not have the nuisance or reasonable grounds for annoyance part of the model bye law in use within their bye laws. So check, it easier for the local authorities to act if they do have all of the model bye law because nuisance out side local traders shop stopping their customer from coming into their shops could be stated as the reason for your arrest.

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