NTIn ForceAct
Consumer Affairs and Fair Trading Act 1990
157Duty of dealer to maintain dealings register
Start here
Get a plain-English read of 157
Turn the raw legal text into a practical explanation grounded in Consumer Affairs and Fair Trading Act 1990.
157 Duty of dealer to maintain dealings register
(1) Subject to subsection (2), a licensed dealer must keep and maintain
a dealings register in the manner or form the Director considers
appropriate:
(a) if the dealer carries on business at one place only – at that
place; or
(b) if the dealer has 2 or more places of business:
(i) at the dealer's principal place of business, in respect of
that place and any other place of business which is
within a radius of 20 km (or other distance for the time
being prescribed) of that place; and
(ii) at each place of business not falling within
subparagraph (i).
(2) For 2 or more licensed dealers who carry on business in
partnership, subsection (1) is complied with if the partners keep and
maintain one dealings register at each place at which that
subsection would require a register to be kept if all of the places at
which members of the partnership carry on business were places of
business of a sole licensed dealer.
(3) A dealings register remains the property of the Director, and must
be returned to the Director if:
(a) the licence of the dealer by whom the register is kept or, as
the case may be, of any of the partners by whom the register
is kept, is revoked or suspended or expires without renewal; or
(b) the dealer by whom the register is kept ceases to carry on
business as a dealer or, as the case may be, the partners by
whom the register is kept cease to carry on the business of a
dealer in partnership.
Consumer Affairs and Fair Trading Act 1990 69