Secondhand Goods Dealers (Exemption) Order

Status:

Revised Edition
published on 30 Sep 2008

Secondhand Goods Dealers Act

(Chapter 288A, Section 20)

Secondhand Goods Dealers (Exemption) Order

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G.N. No. S 553/2007

REVISED EDITION 2008

(30th September 2008)

[1st December 2007]

Citation

1. This Order may be cited as the Secondhand Goods Dealers (Exemption) Order.

Exemption

2.—(1) A secondhand goods dealer who satisfies the following conditions shall be exempted from having to obtain a licence under section 4 of the Act for the purpose of dealing in secondhand goods at any particular premises, Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or email address:

(a)

the secondhand goods dealer has not been convicted of, and is not the subject of police investigations for having committed or for committing —

(i)	any offence under the Act or under the repealed Secondhand Dealers Act (Cap. 288, 1985 Ed.) in force immediately before 1st December 2007; or
(ii)	any offence, whether in Singapore or elsewhere, that involves fraud or dishonesty;

(b)

where the secondhand goods dealer is a body corporate, not one of the members of its board of directors, management committee, board of trustees or other governing body has been convicted of, or is the subject of police investigations for having committed or for committing —

(i)	any offence under the Act or under the repealed Secondhand Dealers Act (Cap. 288, 1985 Ed.) in force immediately before 1st December 2007; or
(ii)	any offence, whether in Singapore or elsewhere, that involves fraud or dishonesty; and

(c)

the secondhand goods dealer is and remains registered with the Licensing Officer in respect of those particular premises or, as the case may be, that particular Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or email address.

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(c), an application for registration shall be made to the Licensing Officer in the relevant form that —

(a)	is provided by the Licensing Officer and obtainable from his office at the Licensing Division, Police Cantonment Complex, 391 New Bridge Road, #02-701, Singapore 088762 during such hours as that office is open for business; or
(b)	is provided in the electronic licensing system of the Singapore Police Force at http://www.spf.gov.sg/licence. [G.N. No. S 553/2007]

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