Licence summary
The introduction of the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 has created a revised regulatory regime for the scrap metal recycling and vehicle dismantling industries. Anyone wishing to operate as a scrap metal dealer must now obtain a licence in order to carry on business.
Eligibility criteria
A person is considered to be a scrap metal dealer if the person:
- Carries on a business which consists wholly or partly in buying or selling scrap metal, whether or not the metal is sold in the form in which it was bought, or
- Carries on business as a motor salvage operator
- recovering salvageable parts from motor vehicles for re-use or sale and selling the remainder of the vehicle for scrap
- buying written-off vehicles, repairing and reselling them
- buying or selling motor vehicles which are to be the subject of any of the activities mentioned in (i) or i)
- wholly or mainly in activities falling within paragraphs (b) and (c)
There are two types of licences:
- Site licence
- Collector's licence
A dealer can only hold one type of licence in any one local authority area.