SCRAP METAL: INPUT SOUGHT ON REVISED DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO SECOND-HAND GOODS REGULATIONS

SCRAP METAL: INPUT SOUGHT ON REVISED DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO SECOND-HAND GOODS REGULATIONS

• 12 July 2024
• Trade, Industry & Competition
• SA Legal Academy

The Civilian Secretariat for the Police Service has gazetted revised draft amendments to regulations under the Second-hand Goods Act, 2009 for public comment by 11 August 2024. They may well incorporate some of the input received on draft regulations released in November 2023 for input, although this is not overtly stated. Presumably, they are also informed by Department of Trade, Industry & Competition measures already in place to curb metal theft.

Among other things, the revised draft regulations propose:

• making ‘satisfactory tax compliance status’ a prerequisite for registration as a scrap and waste metal buyer or seller
• making registration a requirement for the buyers and sellers of semi-finished metal products, and
• requiring scrap and waste buyers and sellers to submit monthly electronic reports to the International Trade Administration Commission ‘showing all purchases and sales of metal products (scrap, waste, semi-finished and finished) by volume and value’.

While it is envisaged that waste pickers dealing in these items would be exempt from certain of the requirements proposed, purchasers of the scrap they offer for sale would be expected to keep detailed records of any such transactions.

Government is also considering making the registered sellers of copper scrap and waste – as well as finished and semi-finished copper products – the only legitimate source of such items for registered buyers.

• draft revised regulations
• SA Legal Academy report on November 2023 draft regulations

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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