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18. The expression "street vendor" broadly refers to those engaged in vending of articles, goods, wares, food items or merchandise "of everyday use" or those offering services to the general public. This definition under Section 2 (l) is wide given the fact that such street vendors are permitted to operate and carry on commercial activity in public spaces - some of them used for movement of people such as footpath, pavements sidewalks etc.The Act balances various rights and ensures that members of the public are not inconvenienced - even while ensuring that the street vendors' rights are protected. In this respect Section 29 declares that nothing in the enactment can be construed as conferring upon the street vendors any temporary, permanent or perpetual right to carry out vending activity in the vending zone allocated. Provisions of Section 29 (1) are inapplicable to a stationary vendor if temporary lease-hold or ownership rights is conferred upon him through a lease deed by some such instrument or arrangement.