Important: Second-hand dealers and pawnbrokers must keep the Business Licensing Authority (BLA) up to date with their registration details. Notify us within 14 days of all changes listed below.
You can update details at any time. You may need to use myCAV or the second-hand dealers and pawnbrokers - change of details online form. Please read below for how to make changes.
On this page:
Changes you can make using myCAV
Individual second-hand dealer registration
Log in to myCAV to or update:
- personal name
- residential, postal or email address
- contact phone number
- ABN
- business name (commencing or ceasing)
- business website
Go to myCAV
Company second-hand dealer registration
Log in to myCAV to or update:
- Company name
- ABN
- director appointed or ceasing
- secretary appointed or ceasing
- business name (commencing or ceasing)
- business website
- registered or postal address
Note: An existing director can update their personal and contact information in their own myCAV account.
Go to myCAV
Changes you can make using second-hand dealers and pawnbrokers - change of details online form
All registration holders must use the second-hand dealers and pawnbrokers - change of details online form to notify us of the following:
- business address (including telephone numbers)
- type of goods traded
- application for endorsement of registration as a pawnbroker
- surrender of registration and/or endorsement
- start or cease business as a sole trader
You must also notify us of changes to associates (individual or organisation). Use the second-hand dealers and pawnbrokers - change of details online form to notify us if associates:
- are added
- cease
- change their details.
Associates include
- business arrangement
- company shareholder
- business partnership arrangement
- personal associates (domestic partner or spouse).
For more information, view our Associates page.
Go to the second-hand dealers and pawnbrokers online form
Changes that mean you must apply for a new registration
You must apply for a new second-hand dealer registration if:
- you restructure your business (for example, you switch from being an individual to a company)
- change company names and become a new corporate entity
If the application is successful, you will be issued with a new Second-hand dealer registration number. View Apply for registration and endorsement - second-hand dealers and pawnbrokers.
Notifying the BLA of disqualifications
You must also notify the Business Licensing Authority (BLA) in writing immediately if the registrant, any director, associate or associate of a director, becomes disqualified. View Disqualification and permission - second-hand dealers and pawnbrokers page.
It is an offence under the Second-Hand Dealers and Pawnbrokers Act 1989 to provide the BLA with false or misleading information or documents.