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Part 3Obligations of licence holders, promoters, and Internet auction providers
Obligations of licensed secondhand dealers: Records and verification of identity

44Storage of dealers record

  1. Every dealers record must be kept—

  2. at the secondhand dealer’s principal place of business; or
    1. in the case of an itinerant secondhand dealer, in the possession of that dealer; or
      1. if regulations provide that dealers records may also be kept elsewhere, in accordance with the regulations.

        1. The information in the dealers record relating to any article, scrap metal, or functioning motor vehicle must be kept for not less than 3 years from the date of the transaction relating to that article, scrap metal, or functioning motor vehicle.

        2. Every dealers record must be kept available for inspection (at any reasonable hour) on request by a constable.

        3. A licensed secondhand dealer commits an offence, and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000, if he or she fails without reasonable excuse to store his or her dealers record as required by this section.

        Compare
        • 1963 No 10 ss 12, 12A
        Notes
        • Section 44(2): amended, on , by section 289 of the Tribunals Powers and Procedures Legislation Act 2018 (2018 No 51).
        • Section 44(3): amended, on , pursuant to section 116(a)(ii) of the Policing Act 2008 (2008 No 72).
        • Section 44(4): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).