South Australian Consolidated Regulations4A—Modification of Act in relation to abandoned goods
(1) The application of
the Act is modified in relation to abandoned goods removed by a second-hand
dealer at the request or with the authorisation of a council or an agency of
the Crown in the course of or for the purposes of the dealer's business so
that—
(a) the
records required to be kept under section 8 of the Act in relation to the
goods—
(i)
need not contain the information set out in section 8(4)
of the Act; but
(ii)
must contain—
(A) the name and address of the council or
the agency of the Crown at whose request or with whose authorisation the goods
were removed; and
(B) a description of the goods; and
(C) a description identifying the place
from which the goods were removed; and
(D) the date on which the goods were
removed; and
(b) on
the sale of the goods by the dealer, the dealer must—
(i)
record, for the purposes of section 8 of the Act, the
name and residential address or business name and business address of the
purchaser of the goods and the date of sale; and
(ii)
if the purchaser of the goods is not another second-hand
dealer, verify the identity of the purchaser and record, for the purposes of
section 8 of the Act, details of the means used to verify the information; and
(c)
sections 8(5), 9 and 10 of the Act do not apply in relation to the goods.
(2) In this
regulation—
"abandoned goods" means goods that have been abandoned or left, or unlawfully
deposited or placed, on a road, in a public place or on local government land
or Crown land;
"council", "local government land", "public
place" and " road" have the same respective meanings as in the Local
Government Act 1999 .