Key features of the Act
- Local authorities will have the power to turn down unsuitable applicants
- Local authorities have the power to revoke a licence
- All sellers of metal to provide personal identification at the point of sale, which is recorded by the scrap metal dealer
- Extending the offence of buying metal with cash to itinerant metal collectors
- New powers for the police and local authorities to enter and inspect sites
- Creating a central public register, hosted by the Environment Agency, of all individuals and businesses licensed as scrap metal dealers
- Widening the definition of a scrap metal dealer to include motor salvage operators
