Scrap Metal Licence

The dealing in scrap metal or the running of a scrap metal business is controlled by the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 1964.

Any person who maintains a scrap metal store within the Malvern Hills area is required to provide particulars of their business to us and to apply for a licence.

A person may only carry on the business of a Scrap Metal Dealer in the Malvern Hills area if they are registered under the above Act.  The business of a scrap Metal Dealer includes any of the following:

having a scrap metal store located within the Malvern Hills area.

a Scrap Metal Store is not located within the area, but Malvern Hills is their usual place of residence.

a Scrap Metal Store is not located within the area, but premises within Malvern Hills are occupied wholly or partly for the purpose of dealing in scrap metal.

A person carries on business as a Scrap Metal Dealer if he/she carries on a business which consists wholly or partly of buying and selling scrap metal, whether scrap metal sold is in the form in which it was bought or otherwise, other that a business in the course of which scrap metal is not bought except as materials for the manufacure of other articles and is not sold except as a by-product of such manufacture or as surplus materials bought byt not required for such manufacture

'Scrap metal' includes any old metal, and any broken, worn out, defaced or partly manufactured articles mad e wholly or partly of metal and any metallic wastes, and also includes old, broken, worn out or defaced tooltips or dies made of any of the materials commonly known as hard metals or of cemented or sintered metallic carbides.

'Scrap metal store' means a place where scrap metal is received or kept in the course of the business of a Scrap Metal Dealer.

Registration as a scrap metal dealer lasts for 3 years and must be renewed on or before the expiry date if the registered person wishes to carry on as a Scrap Metal Dealer.

Any person found guilty of failing to register a scrap metal business or to notify us of alterations in the appropriate particulars shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000.00

Any person found guilty of failing to notify us that a business has ceased shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding £200.00

Any person found guilty of failing to keep the proper prescribed records shall be liable on conviction  to a fine not exceeding £200.00

Any person found guilty of acquiring scrap metal from a person under the age of 16 shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding £200.00

The Council has powers of entry to ascertain if premises are being used as a Scrap Metal Store.  Any person who obstructs the entry of an authorised inspector or fails to produce any book or document which the officer has a right to inspect shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding £200.00

Where a person is convicted of failing to register or failing to keep records of dealings the Court may make an order imposing restrictions on the dealer for a period not exceeding two years.

Form Code	Licence Type	Total Fee
	Scrap Metal Licence  (107.42 KB)	No Fee

See also Motor Salvage Operators Licence