Dealer fined $5000

An unlicensed motor car trader has been fined $5000 for offering to sell 17 motor cars online.

Benjamin Marsh pleaded guilty in Broadmeadows Magistrates’ Court to breaching the Motor Car Traders Act 1986 by carrying on a business of trading in motor cars without holding a motor car trader’s licence.

Marsh advertised the cars on Gumtree from his Preston home.

By law, anyone who buys, sells or exchanges four or more cars in a 12-month period (or offers to do so, including if they do this as an agent for someone else), is deemed to be a motor car trader, and required to be licensed.

The court fined Mr Marsh $5000, without conviction, plus costs of $400.