Licensing

A motor salvage operator is a person who carries on a business which is concerned:

• wholly or partly with the recovery for re-use or sale of salvageable parts from motor vehicles and the subsequent sale or other disposal for scrap of the remainder of the vehicles concerned;
• wholly or mainly with the purchase of written-off vehicles and their subsequent repair and re-sale;
• wholly or mainly with the sale or purchase of motor vehicles which are to be the subject (whether immediately or on a subsequent re-sale) of any of the activities previously mentioned.

A business shall be treated as carrying on business as a motor salvage operator in the area of the council if:

• premises in that area are occupied by it as a motor salvage yard (i.e. premises where a motor salvage operator receives or keeps vehicles - this excludes any premises where only salvageable parts of motor vehicles are received or kept);
• no premises are occupied by it as a motor salvage yard (whether in that area or elsewhere) but the operator has his or her usual place of residence in that area; or
• no premises are occupied by it as a motor salvage yard (whether in that area or elsewhere) but premises in that area are occupied by it wholly or partly for the purposes of that business, so far as it consists of any of the activities which fall within the definition of a motor salvage operator.

“Premises” for the purposes of Part 1 of the Vehicles (Crime) Act 2001 includes any land or other place (whether or not enclosed).

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