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Motor Car Traders Act 1986
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36 Consignment selling prohibited
(1) In this section ***sell a motor car by consignment*** means to sell, exchange or otherwise dispose of a motor car, or any interest in a motor car, as an agent for a person who is not a licensed motor car trader or a special trader.
(2) A motor car trader must not—
(a) sell a motor car by consignment, or offer to sell a motor car by consignment; or
(b) have a motor car in her, his or its possession for the purpose of selling it by consignment.
(3) On finding a motor car trader guilty of an offence against this section, in addition to any other penalty a court may impose, the court may order the motor car trader to pay the person on whose behalf the motor car was sold all of the proceeds of the sale by consignment.
(4) This section does not apply to sales at public auction.
S. 37 substituted by No. 4/2008 s. 13.