s.2Interpretations
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Section 2Part 1 — PRELIMINARY

Interpretations

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In this Law —
means any item of value;
means the Commissioner of Police appointed under the Police Law (2014 Revision);
means a secondhand dealer;
includes —
precious and semi-precious stones or any article in which they are inlaid; and
any article of personal use or adornment composed wholly or partly of gold, silver, platinum, gold plate or silver plate or any combination thereof, (excluding any chemical or any automotive, photographic, electrical, medical or dental material or electronic part) or any other form of precious or semi-precious metal;
means a notice issued by a police officer under section 12(1);
means a list circulated by the Commissioner or the person designated by the Commissioner pursuant to section 8;
has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Police Law (2014 Revision);
includes —
any land or building located at —
in the case of a business, the address provided for the application for or renewal of the licence under any Law that provides for the licensing of trades and businesses; or
in the case of a company, the registered office; or
any —
land or building (except where the building is a dwelling-house); or
vaults, storerooms, warehouses or other types of storage facilities, used wholly or partly by a secondhand dealer for the conduct of business;
includes —
copper in any form;
any old metal, broken metal, partly manufactured metal goods, defaced or old metal goods and metal residues from manufacturing processes; and
any item that is made entirely or substantially of metal and is no longer fit for the purpose for which it was designed or intended;
subject to section 3, means any person who, by way of the internet or otherwise —
conducts business within the Islands which consists wholly or partly of buying or acquiring secondhand articles for the purpose of trade, sale or exchange or otherwise dealing in secondhand articles, including scrap metal or jewellery;
conducts business within the Islands and contracts with persons or entities outside of the Islands to purchase or sell any secondhand articles, including scrap metal or jewellery; or
carries on the business of taking goods and chattels in pawn within the meaning of sections 2 and 3 of the Pawnbrokers Law (1998 Revision) and as an adjunct to the pawnbroking business acquires, exchanges and disposes of secondhand articles including scrap metal and jewellery, whether he is or is not licensed as a secondhand dealer under any Law providing for the licensing of trades or businesses, incorporated under the Companies Law (2013 Revision) or licensed as a pawnbroker under the Pawnbrokers Law (1998 Revision) or operates by virtue of any other Law; and
means a person appointed as a trade officer under any Law that provides for the licensing of trades and businesses and assigned to carry out duties under this Law.

Defined Terms

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