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Licence - Second Hand Dealers

Licence - Second Hand Dealers

Licence summary

To sell goods second-hand, including at auction where you are selling goods on your own behalf, you need a second-hand dealer's licence from Clackmannanshire Council

Eligibility Criteria

You must not be disqualified from holding a licence, and you must be fit to be the holder of the licence.

The premises or vehicle you use in order to carry out the work must be suitable for that purpose.

You must not have applied for the same licence within the last year, unless there has been a material change in your circumstances since your last application.

A second-hand dealer's licence is not required for:

• a pawnbroker


• a business as a wholesale dealer purchasing exclusively from licensed second-hand dealers


• a charity entered in the Scottish Charity Register


• a dealer in second-hand goods or articles incidental to another business which is not being a dealer in such goods or articles


• a business either of financing the acquisition of goods by means of hire-purchase agreements, conditional sale agreements or credit sale agreements or of financing the use of goods by means of hiring agreements

Regulation Summary

A summary of the regulation relating to this licence

Apply

A licence fee of £216.60 is payable.

Please apply using the application form.

Completed forms can be submitted by

• email to licensing@clacks.gov.uk
  
• in person at the Speirs Centre
  
• by post to: Clackmannanshire Council, Licensing Team, Kilncraigs, Greenside Street, Alloa, FK10 1EB

Payment can be made at the Speirs Centre or online via our Pay It page.

Applications must:

• be in writing (including submission by electronic means)


• be signed by the applicant (including signature by electronic means)


• contain the applicant's name and address, and those of any employee who will manage the activity on a day-to-day basis, and the area in which the activity is to be carried out


• be advertised in a newspaper specified by Clackmannanshire Council no later than 7 days after the date of application


• be advertised on or near the premises for a period of 21 days commencing on the date of the application (where appropriate)

Conditions requiring you to keep records of your stock-in-trade, may be attached.

Clackmannanshire Council will:

• send a copy of the application to the Chief Constable
  
• keep a register of applications in which they will enter the details of the receipt of the application, their final decision and reasons for the decision, the details of the terms of each licence granted and a note of any suspension, variation of the terms, or surrender, of a licence

The register must be available for inspection by any member of the public at reasonable times and places and any member of the public must be permitted to make a copy of it.

If the work is to be carried out mainly or wholly in premises, the application must also contain either of the following:

• A certificate addressed to Clackmannanshire Council stating that this requirement has been complied with.


• A declaration that you do not have rights in the premises that enable you to put up a notice, and detailing the reasonable steps that you have made to acquire those rights.