Application for a Scrap Metal Licence

Introduction

Scrap Metal

The Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 comes into effect on 1 October 2013. The Act introduces a new licensing regime for the scrap metal and vehicle dismantling industries.

The Act creates two separate categories of licence:

  • A site licence which allows the holder to carry on business at any authorised site; and
  • A collectors’ licence which allows the holder to conduct door to door collections.
Applications for either licence may be made from 1 October 2013. Applications for site licences must be made to the local authority for the area in which the site is based. Collectors’ licences must be obtained from the local authority for each area within which it is intended to operate. From 1 December 2013 it will be an offence to operate as a scrap metal dealer without the relevant licence.

Current operators registered with their local authority under either the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 1964 or Part 1 of the Vehicles (Crime) Act 2001, have between 1 and 15 October 2013 to apply for one of the new licences. As long as the application is properly made within that period the business may continue to operate until such time that the application has been determined. If application has not been made by 15 October 2013 the registration ends and the business may no longer trade until the relevant licence has been sought and obtained.

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