In sections 28 to 36 of this Act—

• F1“itinerant metal dealer” means a person who—

  • 1. (a)

       carries on a business which consists wholly or substantially of buying or selling for scrap—

       1. (i)

          metal articles that are old, broken, worn out or defaced, or

       2. (ii)

          partly manufactured articles that are made wholly or partly from metal,

    2. (b)

       collects articles of the kind described in paragraph (a)(i) and (ii) by means of visits from place to place, and

    3. (c)

       disposes of such articles without causing them to be kept in a metal store or other premises (including by disposing or giving custody of the articles to a person who keeps a metal store),

• “metal” means any metal (including any precious metal) and any alloy of any metals, whether old or new and includes manufactured articles, whether old or new, made wholly or partly of metal, of any of the materials commonly known as hard metal or of cemented or sintered metallic carbides;

• “metal dealer” means a person carrying on business in terms of subsection (2) below but does not include an itinerant metal dealer within the meaning of this subsection;

• “metal store” means a place where metal is received or kept in the course of a metal dealer’s business;

• “processing”, in relation to metal, includes melting down and any process whereby the composition or form of the metal or of any article which is made of the metal is altered so as to make it substantially less identifiable than before the process, and “process” and “processed” shall be construed accordingly.