Pawnbrokers and Second-hand Dealers Amendment (Fees) Regulation 2003 (NSW)

2003 No 135

New South Wales

Pawnbrokers and Second-hand

Dealers Amendment (Fees)

Regulation 2003

under the

Pawnbrokers and Second-hand Dealers Act 1996

His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Pawnbrokers and Second-hand Dealers Act 1996.

JOHN AQUILINA, M.P., Minister for Fair Trading

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to amend the Pawnbrokers and Second-hand Dealers Regulation 1997 in connection with the application to licences under the Pawnbrokers and Second-hand Dealers Act 1996 of the uniform licensing procedures of the Licensing and Registration (Uniform Procedures) Act 2002. In particular, this Regulation sets out the various fees payable in connection with a licence and omits a number of obsolete provisions.

This Regulation is made under the Pawnbrokers and Second-hand Dealers Act 1996, including section 43 (the general power to make regulations).

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Clause 1	Regulation 2003

Pawnbrokers and Second-hand Dealers Amendment

(Fees) Regulation 2003

under the

Pawnbrokers and Second-hand Dealers Act 1996

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Pawnbrokers and Second-hand Dealers

Amendment (Fees) Regulation 2003.

2 Commencement

This Regulation commences on 28 February 2003.

3 Amendment of Pawnbrokers and Second-hand Dealers Regulation 1997

The Pawnbrokers and Second-hand Dealers Regulation 1997 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

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Regulation 2003
Amendments	Schedule 1
Schedule 1 Amendments

(Clause 3)

[1]      Clause 7A

Insert after clause 7:

7A Fees

(1)	The fees payable for the purposes of the Act are listed in Column 1 of Schedule 3.
(2)	The amount of each fee is to be calculated by adding together the various components set out in Columns 2 and 3 of Schedule 3 in relation that fee.
(3)	An amount specified in relation to an application in Column 2 of Schedule 3 under the heading Processing component is taken to be a fee to cover the costs incurred by the Director- General in processing the application.
Note. This amount is consequently a processing fee for the purposes of Part 2 of the Licensing and Registration (Uniform Procedures) Act 2002.

[2]      Clauses 8, 9, 9A, 10, 11, 27 and 29

Omit the clauses. Insert instead:

8      Unique identifier for combined licence

Despite section 20 (3) (b) (i) of the Licensing and Registration (Uniform Procedures) Act 2002, the same unique identifier may relate to a pawnbroker’s licence and second-hand dealer’s licence that are both contained in the same document, as referred to in section 20 (5) of that Act.

[3]      Clause 21 Penalty notice offences and demerit points

Omit clause 21 (1), (5), (6) and (7).

[4]      Clause 27A Carrying on of business in partnership

Omit “clauses 8 and 9A” from clause 27A (1).
Insert instead “items 1–4 of Schedule 3”.

[5]      Schedule 2 Penalty notice offences and demerit points

Omit Column 2 of Schedule 2.

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Schedule 1	Amendments

[6]      Schedule 3

Insert after Schedule 2:

Schedule 3 Fees

(Clause 7A)

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Processing	Fixed
Nature of fee payable	component	component
Application fee for granting of licence	$130	$230
Application fee for renewal of licence	$30	$230
Application fee for restoration of licence	$30	$251
Application fee for replacement of licence	$20	nil
Application fee for extract of register (per	nil	$11
entry)

BY AUTHORITY

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