7Exemptions under Part 2
This Part of this Act shall not apply to—
(a)any person engaged in a business carried on by a group, organisation or body registered as a charity under section 3 of the Charities Act 1993 (c. 10) or excepted from registration by virtue of subsection (5) of that section; or
(b)a person in respect of whom particulars are registered under the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 1964 (c. 69), in respect of his business as a scrap metal dealer or under the Vehicles (Crime) Act 2001 (c. 3), in respect of his business as a motor salvage operator; or
(c)a person engaged in business as a dealer in waste paper, cardboard, textiles, plastics in bulk or second-hand clothes, in respect of his business as such; or
(d)a person engaged in the business of either financing the acquisition of goods by means of hire-purchase agreements, conditional sale agreements or credit-sale agreements (as defined in section 189(1) of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 (c. 39)) or of financing the use of goods by means of bailment agreements, in respect of any such business or any transaction incidental thereto; or
(e)a pawnbroker, in respect of his business as such; or
(f)a person engaged in a business of which the primary purpose is the supply of new unused goods and to which the supply of second-hand or used goods is merely incidental; or
(g)a person engaged in business as a dealer in second-hand books, in respect of his business as such; or
(h)a person engaged in business as a dealer in animals, in respect of his business as such; or
(i)a person of a class which is by resolution of the council excluded from the operation of this Part of this Act;
and for the purposes of this Part of this Act a person is not to be treated as carrying on the business of a dealer in second-hand goods merely because occasionally he enters into transactions appropriate to a business of that sort.