WOOL, HIDE AND SKIN DEALERS ACT 2004 - As at 23 September 2020 - Act 7 of 2004

Table of Provisions

• Long Title

PART 1 - PRELIMINARY

• 1 Name of Act
• 2 Commencement
• 3 Definitions
• 4 Notes
• 5 Meaning of "wool, hide or skin dealer"
• 6 Restrictions on operation of this Act

PART 2 - LICENSING OF WOOL, HIDE AND SKIN DEALERS

Division 1 - Requirement to be licensed

• 7 Dealers must be licensed
• 8 Unlicensed person must not pretend to be licensed

Division 2 - Persons not entitled to be issued with a licence

• 9 Persons who are not entitled to be issued with a licence

Division 3 - Applying for a licence

• 10 Licence applications
• 11 Business and storage premises

Division 4 - Dealing with licence applications

• 12 Granting or refusing a licence
• 13 Term of licences
• 14 Conditions of licences

Division 5 - Review of decisions

• 15 Administrative review by Civil and Administrative Tribunal

Division 6 - Miscellaneous provisions

• 16 Register of licences
• 17 Failure to display licence details

PART 3 - OBLIGATIONS AND DUTIES OF LICENSEES

• 18 Application of this Part
• 19 Evidence of consent to sale and of identity of deliverer
• 20 Retention period for wool, hides and skins
• 21 Duty to refuse suspicious wool, hides or skins
• 22 Duty to report suspicious wool, hides or skins offered for sale
• 23 Duty to report suspicious wool, hides or skins in custody of licensee
• 24 Duty to report disentitlement

PART 4 - RECORDS

• 25 Application of this Part
• 26 Transaction records
• 27 Records must be kept for 5 years

PART 5 - ACTION AGAINST LICENSEES

• 28 Notices to show cause why licence should not be cancelled
• 29 Licensee may adduce evidence
• 30 Action by Commissioner
• 31 Action against former licensees
• 32 Decision to take no further action
• 33 Surrender of licence

PART 6 - POLICE POWERS

• 34 Search warrants
• 35 Powers of entry and search
• 36 Inspection of records
• 37 Production of records and other things
• 38 Seizure of records

PART 7 - MISCELLANEOUS

• 39 Act binds the Crown
• 40 Nature of proceedings for offences
• 41 Offences by corporations
• 42 Service of documents
• 43 Regulations
• 44 Repeals
45. (Repealed)
• 46 Savings and transitional provisions
• 47 Review of Act
• SCHEDULE 1
Schedule 2 (Repealed)
• SCHEDULE 3