Itinerant Metal Dealer Licence Conditions

Conditions attached to an Itinerant Metal Dealer Licence 

1. The licence holder shall not lend to or allow any other person to use their licence.
2. If during the currency of the licence, the licence holder is convicted of any offence, they shall, within 28 days of the date of conviction, provide full details of such convictions, in writing, to the Licensing Authority at Glasgow City Council, City Chambers, George Square, Glasgow, G2 1DU.
3. The holder of a licence who ceases to act as such for any part of the unexpired period of his licence or whose licence has expired shall, within three months thereafter, give notice thereof to the Licensing Authority at the address referred to in condition 2 above, and surrender his licence and his means of identification to the Head of Licensing and Democratic Services, Glasgow City Council, George Square, Glasgow, G2 1DU.
4. The licence holder shall while trading, always have with him the licence issued by the Licensing Authority which they shall keep clean and legible and shall exhibit on demand to any authorised officer of Glasgow City Council or any Police Scotland officer, on production by that person of his badge of office or written evidence of their appointment to that office and shall allow such person to note the particulars on the licence.
5.  The licence holder shall ensure that all receipts and records are produced on request to any authorised officer of Glasgow City Council or any Police Scotland officer, on production by that person of his badge of office or written evidence of their appointment to that office and shall allow such person to note the particulars on the licence.
6.  Where there is a material change in circumstances affecting the information which the licence holder supplied to the Licensing Authority on their application form for the licence, the licence holder shall notify the Licensing Authority in writing at the address detailed in condition 2 above. of such change within 14 days of the change taking place. In particular a change of the licence holder's permanent address must be intimated to the Licensing Authority in writing within 14 working days of the change.
7. The licence holder must keep records of metal acquired (whether or not for value) or processed or disposed of (by any means).
8. The licence holder, in respect of any metal acquired (whether or not for value), must record the following information:
   (a) the description and weight of the metal; 
   (b) the date and time of the acquisition of the metal;
   (c) if the metal is acquired from another person:
        (i)  the name and address of the person, and                             
        (ii) the means by which the person's name and address was verified; 
   (d) the price, if any, payable in respect of the acquisition of the metal, if that price has been ascertained at the time
         when the entry in the record relating to that metal is to be made,
   (e) the method of payment of the price (if applicable); 
   (f) where no price is payable for the metal, the value of the metal at the time when the entry is to be made as
        estimated by the licence holder; 
   (g) in the case of metal delivered to the licence holder by means of a vehicle, the registration mark (within the
         meaning of section 23 of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994) borne by the vehicle.
9. The licence holder must, where he has paid for metal, keep a copy of the cheque or the document evidencing the electronic transfer of funds.
10. The licence holder, in respect of any metal processed or disposed of (whether or not for value), must record the following information:              
    (a) the description and weight of the metal immediately before its processing or disposal;
    (b) in the case of metal which is processed, the process applied;
    (c) in the case of metal disposed of by sale or exchange:
         (i)   the consideration for which it is sold or exchanged; 
         (ii)  the name and address of the person to whom the metal is sold or with whom it is exchanged; and 
         (iii) the means by which the person's name and address was verified. (d) in the case of metal disposed of
                otherwise than by sale or exchange, its value immediately before its disposal as estimated by the dealer.
11. The licence holder must:
    (a) keep separate records in relation to: 
          (i)  metal acquired; and 
          (ii) metal processed or disposed of. 
    (b) record the information immediately after the metal is acquired, processed or disposed of; 
    (c) keep a copy of any document produced by a person to verify that person's name or address, and 
    (d) retain information recorded or documents kept under this section for a period of not less than 3 years
          beginning with the date on which the information was recorded or document obtained.
12. The licence holder must record the required information detailed in conditions 7 to 11 (inclusive) above, in books with serially numbered pages, or by means of a device for storing and processing information.
13.  Where the licence holder records information about metal acquired, processed or disposed of in books, the licence holder must ensure that they use separate books for recording the required information about metal acquired and metal processed or disposed of.
14. Where the licence holder uses a device for storing and processing information, the licence holder must, by means of the device or otherwise, keep details of all modifications made in the records kept by the device.
15. Where the licence holder is required to keep a copy of a document it is sufficient for the licence holder to keep an electronic copy of the document and in relation to a document verifying a person's name and address, keep only one copy of the document.
16. The licence holder must ensure that that they have verified a person's name and address in accordance with The Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 (Metal Dealers and Itinerant Metal Dealers) (Verification of Name and Address) Regulations 2016. To verify a person's name and address the licence holder must always refer to:
    (1) (a) a document listed in paragraph (2) below which bears the person's name, photograph and residential
               address; or 
          (b) (i)  a document listed in paragraph (2) below which bears the person's full name, photograph and date of
                     birth; and
                (ii) a document listed in paragraph (3) below which bears the person's full name and residential
                     address.              
    (2) The documents for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) or (b)(i) are:-
          (a) a valid United Kingdom passport; 
          (b) a valid passport issued by an EEA state; 
          (c) a valid Great Britain or Northern Ireland photo-card driving licence; and 
          (d) a valid biometric immigration document.              
    (3) The documents for the purposes of paragraph (1)(b)(ii) are—  
          (a) a bank or building society statement;  
          (b) a credit or debit card statement; 
          (c) a council tax bill or statement where the person's address is in England, Wales or Scotland; 
          (d) a rate bill or statement where the person's address is in Northern Ireland; and 
          (e) a utility bill, but not a mobile phone bill, provided that the date on which the document was issued is not more
               than three months before the date the metal is acquired by the dealer or not more than three months before
               the date the metal is disposed of by sale or exchange by the dealer.
17. The licence holder must only pay for metal only by non-transferable cheque or electronic transfer of funds to a bank which has its head office or branch in the United Kingdom or to a building society account in the name of the payee. The building society must be incorporated under the Building Societies Act 1986.