TAKE NOTE: Renewal of registration as a second-hands dealer
Dealers and the community can access the following website: www.saps.gov.za for more information on the Act, as well as relevant application forms and other related material.
All dealers in second hand goods who had registered in May 2012 must note that the five-year registered period is due to expire.
Therefore to continue legally to do business in second hand goods, re-registrations must be done as soon as possible.
The Second Hand Goods Act, 2009 came into effect from 30 April 2012, so as to regulate the business of dealers in second hand goods and pawn brokering.
The following process is applicable to all existing registered secondhand goods dealers who must renew his/her registration:
– An application for renewal of registration must be made in terms of Section 11 of the Act, no more than 180 days and no less than 90 days before the expiry date of the existing registration
– An application for renewal of registration must be made at the designated second hand goods officer at the police station in which area the business is currently registered
– A renewal application must be made on an SAPS 601(e) form: Application for Renewal as a SHG Dealer/Recycler.
– The SAPS 601(e) form must be accompanied by all relevant supporting documents, of which a checklist is available on the SAPS’s website: www.saps.gov.za.
– A renewal application may only be granted if the dealer/recycler shows that he/she still complies with the requirements of registration in terms of the Act.
– If an SAPS 601(e) renewal application has been lodged within the prescribed period, the registration remains valid until the SAPS 601(e) renewal application is decided on, and a new Certificate of Registration has been issued to the second-hand goods dealer.
– Should a registered second-hand goods dealer decide not to apply for renewal, his/her registration will terminate on the expiry date of the current Registration Certificate and he/she will not be allowed to continue dealing in second hand goods.
– Not applying for renewal within the registered time frame will be regarded as an immediate termination of registration.
– An application for the renewal of registration is free of charge.
Dealers and the community can access the following website: www.saps.gov.za for more information on the Act, as well as relevant application forms and other related material.
For more information contact Captain J. Lutchman on 079 500 0471 or visit him at the Newcastle Police Station, Block D, Room 214 or alternatively, contact Sergeant I.S.N. Masondo on 079 736 7294 or visit him at Block D, Room 210.
