Second-hand dealers and pawnbrokers

Individuals and companies opening a business where second-hand goods are sold must register with the Commissioner of Police one month before opening. This includes:

second-hand dealers
pawnbrokers
second-hand markets operators.

This is required under the:

General exemptions

Business registration is not required by:

organisations selling donated goods, e.g. churches and schools
individuals and companies selling goods covered by other legislation e.g. Firearms, Second-hand Vehicle Dealers.

Please also see provisions set out in the Second-hand Dealers and Pawnbrokers Regulations 2013

Regulation 4 (1) states; Section 8 and 9 of the Act apply only in relation to the following kinds of goods;

(a) Goods that a dealer receives under a contract of pawn;
(b) Prescribed goods.

Further, Regulation 4 (6) states that; Sections 6,7,8,9 and 10 of the Act do not apply in relation to the following businesses;

(a) The business of selling second-hand vehicles carried on by a person licensed as a dealer, or exempt from the requirement to be licensed as a dealer, under the Second-hand Vehicle Dealers Act 1995.
(b) The business of repairing prescribed goods for customers;
(c) The business of acquiring prescribed good for the purposes of recycling metal and selling scrap metal obtained from those goods.