SECOND-HAND TRADE

Taranaki Daily News, 11 April 1935, Page 2

SECOND-HAND TRADE

CONTROL OF LICENSES. POWER GIVEN TO MAGISTRATES. From the beginning of this month the licensing of second-hand dealers passed from the control of the various local authorities to the Magistrate’s Court. This change follows the passing of the Secondhand Dealers Amendment Act, 1934, which came into force on April 1. The main objects of the amendment are to bring within the scope of the Act itinerant second-hand dealers and persons purchasing second-hand articles for the purpose of manufacturing other articles, and to transfer from the local authorities to magistrates the function of issuing second-hand dealers’ licenses. Licenses, granted under the principal Act and in force on March. 31 ceased to have effect at the close of that day unless application had been made to ,|he Magistrate’s Court for a new license, in which case jt would remain in force until the application has been either granted or refused.

In the past the license fee has been ss. Under the amendment the fee will be 5s for a second-hand dealer with a settled place of business or for an itinerant dealer, but the fee for a dealer carrying on a business at a settled place and also an itinerant dealer will be 10s. The amended Act provides for the payment into the Consolidated Fund of the fees received, and local authorities will accordingly lose the revenue they formerly obtained from that source.