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subject of police investigations for having committed or for committing —| (i) | any offence under the Act or under the repealed Secondhand Dealers Act (Cap. 288, 1985 Ed.)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subject of police investigations for having committed or for committing —| (i) | any offence under the Act or under the repealed Secondhand Dealers Act (Cap. 288, 1985 Ed.)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; [S 121/2018 wef 01/05/2018] |
| | (ba) | where the secondhand goods dealer is a partnership, not one of the partners 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subject of police investigations for having committed or for committing —| (i) | any offence under the Act or under the repealed Secondhand Dealers Act (Cap. 288, 1985 Ed.) as in force immediately before 1 December 2007; or | | (ii) | any offence, whether in Singapore or elsewhere, that involves fraud or dishonesty; |
[S 121/2018 wef 01/05/2018] | | (bb) | where the secondhand goods dealer is an unincorporated association (other than a partnership), not one of its officers or members of its 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subject of police investigations for having committed or for committing —| (i) | any offence under the Act or under the repealed Secondhand Dealers Act as in force immediately before 1 December 2007; or | | (ii) | any offence, whether in Singapore or elsewhere, that involves fraud or dishonesty; |
[S 121/2018 wef 01/05/2018] | | (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; [S 121/2018 wef 01/05/2018] | | (d) | the secondhand goods dealer is not carrying on the business of a secondhand goods dealer at an address where another secondhand goods dealer is also carrying on such business at the same time. [S 121/2018 wef 01/05/2018] |
(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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(3) In this Order —| “body corporate” includes a limited liability partnership which has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Limited Liability Partnerships Act (Cap. 163A); |
| “officer”, in relation to an unincorporated association (other than a partnership), means the president, the secretary, or any member of the committee of the unincorporated association, or any person holding a position analogous to that of president, secretary or member of a committee and includes any person purporting to act in any such capacity; |
| “partner” includes a person purporting to act as a partner. |
[S 121/2018 wef 01/05/2018] |
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