SYDNEY -- An entrepreneur schoolboy trying to save up for a skateboard by selling flowers has fallen foul of local laws by failing to take out a $5 million ($2.70 million) public liability insurance policy.

Tyrone Drowley had been selling chrysanthemums for 50 cents a bunch from a table outside his family home in Wonthaggi in Victoria state until he was ordered to stop by local council officials.

"He hadn't been set up for long when the bylaws officer stopped him because he didn't have a $20 council permit," Tyrone's mother Heidi told Australian Television.

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