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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scrap-metal-dealers-act-2013/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scrap-metal-dealers-act-2013/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2013/10",
  "legislation_title": "Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scrap-metal-dealers-act-2013",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Requirement for licence to carry on business as scrap metal dealer",
  "text": "(1) No person may carry on business as a scrap metal dealer unless authorised by a licence under this Act (a “scrap metal licence”).\n(2) See section 21 for the meaning of “carry on business as a scrap metal dealer”.\n(3) A person who carries on business as a scrap metal dealer in breach of subsection (1) is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 1(1)(2) in force at 1.10.2013 by S.I. 2013/1966, art. 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 1(3) in force at 1.12.2013 by S.I. 2013/1966, art. 4(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/10/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:08:26.697141+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}