On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:50:22 -0000 Dennis@home wrote :
There is no crime buying scrap.
Are you suggesting they go and try to sell scrap and tell the scrap yard
owner it is stolen to see what he does?

There is, if you're not registered or they're under 16

Scrap Metal Dealers Act 1964

"Every local authority shall maintain a register of persons carrying on
business in their area as scrap metal dealers; and, after the expiration of
three months beginning with the commencement of this Act, no person shall
carry on business as a scrap metal dealer in the area of a local authority
unless the appropriate particulars relating to him are for the time being
entered in the register maintained by the authority under this section."
...

"If a scrap metal dealer acquires any scrap metal from a person apparently
under the age of sixteen years, whether the scrap metal is offered by that
person on his own behalf or on behalf of another person, he shall be guilty
of an offence"

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1964/69


The list of repeals includes the Old Metal Dealers Act 1861 so this trade
has obviously been a cause of legislative concern for a long time.


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