4Restrictions on operation of this Act

4 Restrictions on operation of this Act

4 Restrictions on operation of this Act

(1) This Act does not apply so as to affect any activities conducted in accordance with a licence, permit or other authority under another Act (for example the Property and Stock Agents Act 2002, the Firearms Act 1996, or the Motor Dealers and Repairers Act 2013). In particular, this Act does not require a person to obtain a licence under this Act to carry on a business or any activity that is authorised by a licence, permit or other authority issued to that person under any other Act.

(2) This Act does not apply—

(a) to dealing in second-hand goods in the course of a fundraising appeal authorised under the Charitable Fundraising Act 1991, or

(b) to the business of an auctioneer, or

(c) to the extent provided by the regulations, in relation to such persons and circumstances as the regulations may prescribe.

(3) In subsection (2)—

business of an auctioneer does not include the business of selling goods by tender.

s 4: Am 1998 No 120, Sch 2.25 [1]; 2002 No 66, Sch 2.6; 2002 No 104, Sch 1 [3]; 2013 No 107, Sch 3.9; 2018 No 5, Sch 2.11.