Secondhand Dealers and Pawnbrokers Act 2004

Obligations of licence holders, promoters, and Internet auction providers - Obligations of licensed secondhand dealers - Secondhand dealing

48: Articles to be labelled

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"Secondhand dealers must label items with a special number until they are sold."

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When you are a secondhand dealer, you must put a label on an article. The label must have a special number that you assign to the article. You must keep the label on the article until it is sold. You do not have to follow this rule if the Act or regulations say something different. This means there might be some exceptions to this rule. You need to check the Act or regulations to see if there are any exceptions that apply to you.

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47: Articles to be kept for 10 working days, or

"Secondhand dealers must keep items for 10 working days so police can inspect them."

49: Modification of rules where groups of articles acquired as single item, or

Part 3Obligations of licence holders, promoters, and Internet auction providers
Obligations of licensed secondhand dealers: Secondhand dealing

48Articles to be labelled

A label in the prescribed form bearing the number assigned by a secondhand dealer to an article must be affixed to the article at all times until it is sold or otherwise disposed of.
Subsection (1) does not apply to the extent that this Act or regulations prescribe otherwise.