Pawnbroker. |Ch. 31. No. 12.

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30. If a pawnbroker knowingly takes in pawn any linen
or apparel or unfinished goods, or materials entrusted to
any person to wash, scour, iron, mend, manufacture, work
up, finish, or make up, he shall be guilty of an offence, and
shall be hable, on summary conviction, to forfeit a sum not
exceeding double the amount of the loan; and the pawn-
broker shall likewise restore the pledge to the owner thereof,
in the presence of the court, or as the court directs.

31. (1) If the owner of any linen or apparel or unfinished
goods, or materials entrusted to any person as aforesaid
and unlawfully pawned with a pawnbroker, or the owner
of anv other article unlawfully pawned with a pawnbroker
(the last mentioned owner having on oath satisfied a
Magistrate that his goods have been unlawiully obtained
or taken from him), makes out on oath before a Magistrate
that there is good cause to suspect that a pawnbroker has
taken in pawn the linen, apparel, goods, materials, or article
wforesaid, without the privity or authority of the owner,
and makes appear to the satisfaction of the Magistrate
probable grounds for such suspicion, the Magistrate may
issue his warrant for searching, within the hours of business,
the shop of the pawnbroker

(2) If the pawnbroker, on request by a constable
authorised by the warrant, refuses to open the shop and
permit it to be searched, a constable may break it open
within the hours of business, and search as he thinks fit
therein for the linen, apparel, goods, materials, or article
aforesaid, doing no wilful damage; and if any pawnbroker
or other person opposes or hinders the search, he shall be
guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.

(3) Hf. on the search, any linen, apparel, goods,
materials, or article aforesaid is or are found, and the
property of the owner thereof is made out to the satisfaction
of a Magistrate, such Magistrate shall cause the same to be
forthwith restored to the owner thereof.

Licences.
32. (1) Every pawnbroker shall yearly take out from the
Commissioner of Inland Revenue an excise licence for
carrying on his business, on which licence there shall be

Prohibition
of taking in
pawn linen,
clothing,
unfinished
goods, ctc.,
in certain
cascs.

Search
warrant for

» linen, ete.,

unlawfully
pawned.

Yearly
licence and
excise duty,