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Scrap metal dealers given March deadline to comply
Scrap metal dealers have until March 31st to submit copies of their licences to the Office of the Prime Minister or face their containers being delayed.
Government inspectors are gearing to conduct exercises at scrap metal dealers countrywide later this week to ensure compliance.
The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), which has direct oversight of the industry, on Friday said that despite a clamping down, there are still a number of persons conducting illegal operations.
Under the Old Metal Dealer Act, persons have to write the Superintendent of Police of the division giving his or her address and the business addresses, among other things.
The PM office noted that there are still dealers who are trading in scrap metal but not yet licenced.
“The Old Metal Dealer Act Cap 91:08 specifies that a dealer means any person dealing in buying and selling old metals of any kind or description, scrap metal, broken metal or partly manufactured metal goods or portions of machinery and whether dealing in those articles only or together with other things should be licenced.”
OPM warned that dealers have until March 31st to submit copies of their metal dealer’s licence before any future considerations of their transactions.
OPM has to okay any shipment of scrap metal leaving Guyana.
On Tuesday, inspectors from OPM and the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce will be visiting registered scrap metal yards and offices to ensure that dealers are in compliance with proper management and record keeping requirements of their operations and that “scrap yards are operating according to the conditions that are presently in place.”
Deals are expected to, among other things, maintain their yards in a tidy manner, fenced and not in view from the main roads; with trucks and containers loaded and off-loaded in the yards with none of these trucks or containers to be parked on the parapets.
Government on several occasions had banned the exports of scrap metal as the country saw a spike in vandalism of electrical and telecommunication cables.
Dealers have now been mandated to increase their alertness to ensure that metals are not stolen.
Government has also announced more inspections of the industry.
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