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The Medway Act 2001
Date: 11th February 2002
Medway Trading Standards, on behalf of the Council, and with the co-operation and support of Kent Police has been promoting the Medway Act. After nearly three years of consultation and progress through the Parliamentary process we have received Royal Assent and the Act came into force from 1 December 2001. An identical Act was promoted by Kent County Council so the same provisions will apply throughout the whole geographical county of Kent.
The Act aims to regulate the trade in secondhand goods and to make it more difficult for criminals to dispose of stolen property because dealers in second hand goods will need to be registered and to keep records. Legitimate traders have nothing to fear from the Act, and in fact stand to gain in both trade and reputation as dishonest traders are forced out of the market.
If you deal in second hand goods then you should know about this new piece of legislation. It requires all dealers to register and keep certain records. Secondhand dealers guidance is available here.
For further advice or registering by telephone please contact Medway Council Trading Standards on 01634 333170 or email consumer.protection@medway.gov.uk
Postal registrations.
If you do not wish to register your business online, then you can download an application form and post it to us at the address below. If you need help completing the form, the please go to our notes section.
Send your postal applications to:
Medway Council
Trading Standards Team
Compass Centre
Chatham Maritime
Chatham
Kent
ME4 4YH
Occasional sales.
The legislation will also affect occasional sales (which includes events such as boot fairs, markets and one day sales). Please download guidance notes
and notification forms for further information on occasional sales. These are pdf files and require you to have Adobe Acrobat to read them.If more detailed guidance is required, please see the Questions and Answers guidance note
.
Medway Council, Trading Standards Team,
Telephone: 01634 333555 Fax: 01634 333182
Copyright © Medway 2002
Compass Centre, Chatham Maritime, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4YH
Electronic Mail: consumer.protection@medway.gov.uk
Internet Website: http:/www.tradingstandards.gov.uk/medway