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Liccace duty.

Con.mis:
sion ol
Inland

Revenue

mas refuse
10 issue
licenee, and
may attach
conditions
and may
cancel
licenee

List of
licensecl
auctioneer:
to be
published

Penalty for
acting
without
licence

Board con-

taining name

and place ot
business of
auctioneer.

Ch. 31. No. 10.| A uctioncer,

5. (1) The amount payable to the Commissioner of
Inland Revenue for every such licence shall be $24: Pro-
vided that in the case of a person who at the commencement
of this Ordinance held a general certificate as a bailiff under
the Landlord and Tenant Ordinance, and the rules made or
in force thereunder, the annual amount payable by him for
an auctioncer’s licence shall, so long as he holds such a
certificate continuously, be $2.40.

(2) All such amounts shall form part of the general
revenue of the Colony

6. (1) The Commissioner of Inland Revenue may retuse
to grant any such licence, and may, in his discretion, attach
such conditions thereto as he may deem expedient, and may
‘ancel such licence in the event of the breach of any such
condition being proved to his satisfaction.

(2) The Commissioner of Inland Revenue shall not
grant a licence to a pawnbroker as defined by the Pawn-
brokers Ordinance, or to any servant, apprentice, or agent
of a pawnbroker.

7. The Comnussioner of Inland Revenue shall, at the
beginning of every month, cause to be published in the
Royal Gazette and in one or more of the local newspapers

list of the persons to whom licences shall have been
granted by him during the preceding month; and if at any
time he shall cancel any such licence he shall publish in
like manner as aforesaid the name of the person whose
licence shall have been so cancelled.

8. Any person who carries on the business of an auctioneer
without being duly licensed shall be liable to a fine of two
hundred and forty dollars.

9. (1) Before beginning any auction, every auctionver
shall affix or suspend, and shall keep the same so affixed or
suspended during the whole time the auction is being held,
a board or ticket containing his true and full christian name
and surname and place of business, painted or written in
large letters publicly visible and legible, in some con-