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Consumer Affairs and Fair Trading Act 1990
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244 Interpretation
business premises means premises at which, under a licence:
(a) business may be conducted with members of the public; and
(b) goods may be stored.
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lawn sale means a sale of goods from a residential dwelling, or
from a parcel of land on which a residential dwelling is situated,
where the property in the goods was not acquired by the seller
through his or her business as a pawnbroker or a second-hand
dealer.
licence means a pawnbroker's licence, a pawnbroker/second-hand
dealer's licence or a second-hand dealer's licence.
licensee means a person who holds a licence.
officer, in relation to a body corporate, includes a director,
secretary, executive officer or employee of the body.
pawnbroker means a person conducting the business of:
(a) lending money on the security of pawned goods; or
(b) receiving goods under a contract for sale where the seller has
a right to buy back the goods.
pawn ticket means a statement required to be given under
section 280.
redemption period means the period referred to in
section 288(1)(a)(i) or (ii), whichever applies in the particular case.
second-hand dealer means a person conducting the business of
buying, selling or exchanging second-hand goods, whether the
goods are bought, sold or exchanged on the person's own behalf or
on behalf of another person.
second-hand goods means any goods which have been worn or
otherwise used but does not include goods belonging to a class of
goods prescribed by the regulations as goods not to be treated as
second-hand goods for the purposes of this Act.
storage premises means premises at which, under a licence,
goods may be stored.
(2) In this Part a reference to goods in the possession of a person
includes a reference to goods under that person's control.
(3) In this Part, unless the contrary appears, a reference to a contract
is a reference:
(a) in the case of a pawnbroker, to a contract for the lending of
money on the security of pawned goods or for the receiving of
goods under a contract of sale where the seller has a right to
buy back the goods; and
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(b) in the case of a second-hand dealer, to a contract for the
purchase or exchange of second-hand goods by the second-
hand dealer.
(4) In this Part a reference to the purchase or exchange of goods in
relation to a second-hand dealer includes a reference to a purchase
or exchange, as the case may be, of goods by the dealer on behalf
of another person.