Kent Trading Standards have now published a series of guidelines setting out traders’ responsibilities and the extent of the measures.
As the date for enforcing the new laws approaches, they will be setting up an information service to help the trade and will be publishing details of the measures on their Website.
So, after last week’s confusion, what has actually been ratified by parliament ? Kent Trading Standards officer David Scott has spent the past week sifting through the Bills and their amendments and has come up with the following synopsis of where names and addresses must be recorded:
Categories of goods requiring records to be kept by registered dealers when purchasing articles:
Categories of goods which must always be recorded:
Electrically or battery-powered goods or any medium on which sound images or other data may be stored or recorded and which is intended for use with any such goods.
Categories of goods which must be recorded if, in the reasonable opinion of the dealer at the time of the transaction, they are to be sold or offered for sale for any more than £10:
Vehicle parts, jewellery, watches, photographic equipment, sports equipment, equestrian equipment, boating equipment, musical equipment, tools, bicycles, optical equipment, firearms and gardening equipment.
Categories of goods which must be recorded if, in the reasonable opinion of the dealer at the time of the transaction, they are to be sold or offered for sale for more than £50:
All goods not previously mentioned.
Categories of goods requiring records to be kept by registered dealers when selling articles:
Categories of goods to be recorded when sold for £100 or more:
Electrically or battery powered goods, vehicle and vehicle parts, plant, jewellery, watches, photographic equipment sports equipment, equestrian equipment, building materials, boats and boating equipment, musical instruments, gardening equipment.
Categories of goods to be recorded when sold for £500 or more:
All goods not previously mentioned.
What the Kent Bill will mean
UK: BY the time you read this, the Kent and Medway Bills should have passed into law, with Royal Assent being given on Tuesday, April 10, although there will be a six-month delay until it can be enforced.
