Secondhand Dealers Amendment Act 1975
Secondhand Dealers Amendment Act 1975
Secondhand Dealers Amendment Act 1975
Secondhand Dealers Amendment Act 1975
Public Act |
1975 No 103 |
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Date of assent |
9 October 1975 |
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An Act to amend the Secondhand Dealers Act 1963
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short Title
This Act may be cited as the Secondhand Dealers Amendment Act 1975, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Secondhand Dealers Act 1963 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Register of scrap metal to be kept
(1)
The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section 12, the following section:
“12a
“(1)
Every licensee shall keep in the prescribed form a register in which he shall enter, in respect of all scrap metal acquired by him and every secondhand motor vehicle acquired by him for the purpose of wrecking or dismantling it, the date of the acquisition, a full description of the nature and quantity of the metal or (as the case may require) a description of the motor vehicle, and the name, address, and occupation of the person from whom he acquired the metal or motor vehicle.
“(2)
If in the course of any transaction scrap metal is delivered by any motor vehicle to any licensee or to any person on his behalf the licensee shall record in the register of scrap metal, together with the other particulars required to be entered, the letters and numerals on the registration plates affixed to the vehicle delivering the scrap metal.
“(3)
Subject to the provisions of this section, the provisions of subsections (2), (4), (5), (6), and (7) of section 12 of this Act, so far as they are applicable and with the necessary modifications, shall apply to and in respect of every register required to be kept under this section.”
(2)
Section 12(1) of the principal Act (as amended by section 2(1) of the Secondhand Dealers Amendment Act 1964) is hereby amended—
(a)
By inserting, after the words “by him”
, the words “other than scrap metal or a motor vehicle,”
:
(b)
By repealing the proviso to the subsection.
(3)
Subsection (5a) of section 12 of the principal Act (as inserted by section 3 of the Secondhand Dealers Amendment Act 1968) is hereby repealed.
(4)
The following enactments are hereby consequentially repealed:
(a)
Section 2(1) of the Secondhand Dealers Amendment Act 1963:
(b)
Section 3 of the Secondhand Dealers Amendment Act 1968.
This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.