distant selling poetry club tickets on streets?

[james72]

I run a poetry night in central London

So � we run these nights now in three different venues (depending on how many we get in � and which venues are available on any particular night). BUT all Internet ticket sales have the original venues address on. The Internet bookings clearly state that the 'real' venue may well be different depending on how popular the night is. The leaflets we hand out (on the streets) also have the original venue on (we had 250,000 of them already printed � d'oh). The venue is fine with us selling the tickets � outside. We therefore have our box office (bit posh � by box office I mean - bloke dealing with ticket sales and internet collection) as usual outside the original venue. We also walk customers from there to the new venues. Two of which being less than 60 seconds away � and one about 3 minutes walk.

We have to do this because we don't know which venue we will be using day by day.

The problem???

A Westminster Council man came up to our seller and told him he was going to be arrested if he did this again. As it was breaking some law? I didn't understand what law. The ticket seller was given a warning. And then only because this Westminster man was 5 minutes away from the end of his day � otherwise he would have been arrested � gulp. The law the man quoted was something like � selling tickets one place for something elsewhere????

Does anyone know what this law is?

Does anyone know any way around this?

As we do offer to walk everyone over (those who know London mostly make their own way over � but everyone is offered to be walked over) � could we not claim that the walk was part of the show � as in a guided walk with a show at the end????? Although some venues are only 60 seconds walk away � we could do this?????


Thanks for any help at all

Or further questions.

[Whickerman]

I can't answer this as it seems that it's a local council by-law. However, your first port of call should be the council offices, and you will be able to get your answers there.