Metal Dealer Licence Conditions

Conditions attached to a Metal Dealer's Licence

1. If the Licence Holder, or any person named as having responsibility for the day to day management of the business, is convicted of any offence they shall provide full details of the conviction in writing to the Licensing Authority within 28 days.
2. If the Licence Holder, or any person named as having responsibility for the day to day management of the business, changes address, the Licence Holder must return the licence to the Licensing Authority, together with details of the new address, within 14 days.
3. An authorised officer of the Licensing Authority, fire authority or a Police Constable shall be permitted free access to the premises at any reasonable time, for the purpose of carrying out their duties, and can:
   
   (a) enter and inspect any premises, vehicle or vessel used or to be used in connection with the carrying on of
        business as a metal dealer;
   b)  require production of and inspect any equipment, plant, apparatus or stock-in-trade used in connection
         with the carrying on of business as a metal dealer;
   (c)  require production of and inspect any records or other documents required by the Civic Government
         (Scotland) Act 1982 and can take copies or extracts from any such document.
4. Where the Licence Holder has ceased carrying on business as a metal dealer, or where the licence has been varied, suspended or revoked by the Licensing Authority, the Licence Holder must return the licence to the Licensing Authority within 7 days.
5. The Licence Holder must comply with the requirements made of metal dealers by the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982, and in particular in relation to record keeping, the retention of metal and acceptable forms of payment for metal.