What is a scrap metal dealer?
No person shall carry on a business as a scrap metal dealer unless they have registered their particulars with the council. Scrap metal registrations are issued under the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 1964. The Act states that a person carrying on a business as a scrap metal dealer shall be treated as carrying on that business in the area of a local authority only if one of the following conditions apply: • they occupy a scrap metal store in the area; • they reside in the area but do not accupy a scrap metal store in the area or elsewhere – that is, they are an itinerant dealer; • they occupy a place in the area wholly or partly for the purposes of a scrap metal business but they do not occupy a scrap metal store in that area or elsewhere.
