Internet auction providers
There is no statutory definition of who is an "internet auction provider". As a general guide, if you or your company runs an Internet auction website and provides internet auction services you or your company will be an "internet auction provider".
Internet auction providers do not have to be licensed or certified, but there are requirements that the Act imposes on these people.
Requirements for Internet Auction Providers
Record keeping requirements
All internet auction providers must keep an "internet auction providers record".
If you are an internet auction provider, your "record" must show the following details about every person offering secondhand articles or scrap metal for sale on your website:
- full name
- date of birth
- contact address
- contact number
- email address.
The Secondhand Dealers and Pawnbrokers Regulations 2005 may, when passed, prescribe other information that you need to keep in your "record". This page will be updated when the Regulations are passed to include any reference to additional requirements.
Storage of "internet auction providers record"
You must keep your "internet auction providers record" for 12 months from the date the bids closed for any sale or attempted sale of articles. You must also, when required to do so by a member of Police:
- show the Police officer your "record" or any information contained in it
- make and give that copy of all, or part, of your "record" to Police.
Offences relating to promoters
As a Internet auction provider you would commit an offence, and attract, on conviction, a fine of up to $10,000, if you:
- failed to record all the details required in your "record"
- made a false entry on your "record"
- failed to show or give Police a copy of your "record" or any part thereof.
