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Your Legal Obligations as a Scrap Metal Dealer

Once you have completed steps 1-5 we will register your particulars. Your registration will remain valid for a period of 3 years and will be automatically cancelled after this time unless you make further written application for the registration to continue.

There are some important legal rules for you to follow and relevant extracts of the 1964 Act are summarised below:

1. Every registered dealer shall, at each store occupied keep a book detailing:
   
   • All scrap metal received
   • All scrap metal either processed or despatched
   • Records of all sales to or from the place to include: i. Description/weight of scrap metal received
     ii. Date/time received/despatched
     iii. Name/address of person selling or buying scrap metal
     iv. Price paid for or estimated value of metal sold.
2. Entries in the book must be made immediately after the receipt or sale of any scrap metal.
3. Any book kept to record transactions must be a bound book and such book must be kept for a period of at least 2 years after the date of last entry recorded in the book.

WARNING
Failure to comply with these requirements is an offence and upon conviction the court may impose restrictive trade orders upon you.
Note: If you do not occupy a store and are not an itinerant dealer (see below) you must still keep a book of records of dealings at either your home address/business and enter the details required by the act as soon as is practicable.

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