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Cesser of
licence on
conviction,

Licences not
to be granted
without
cerlifteate.

Certitics

to be
granted by
Magistrates.

Form and
duration of
certificate.
4th
Scheduk-.

 

Ch. 31. No. 12.] Pawnbrorers.

charged and paid for the use of the Colony the excise duties
following, that is to say, for carrying on business-

(a) within the limits of Port-of-Spain, $240;
(6) within the limits of San Fernando, $120;
c)

(c) outside the limits of Port-of-Spain and San
Fernando, $00.

(2) very licence shall be dated on the day on which
it is issued, and shall determine on the 31st of December
of each vear

(3) A separate licence shall be taken out and paid for
by a pawnbroker for each pawnbroker’s shop kept by him.

(4) every such licence shall spe ay the premises in
Which the business is to be carried on.

(5) Ifa person acts a pawnbroker without having
in foree a proper licence, he shall, for every such offence be
hable, on summary conviction, toa fine of two hundred and
forty dollars.

33. If a pawnbroker is convicted on indictment of any
fraud in his business, or of receiving stolen goods, knowing
them to be stolen, the court before which he is convicted
may if it thinks fit, direct that his licence shall cease to have
effect, and the same shall cease accordingly

34. A pawnbroker's licence shall not be granted to any
person except on the production and im pursuance of the
authority of a certificate granted under this Ordinance.
Any licence granted in contravention of this section shall
be void.

35. Certificates under this Ordinance shall be granted by
the Magistrate of the district where the application is made.

36. A certificate under this Ordinance shal] be in the
form given in the Fourth Schedule hereto, or to the like
effect, and shall continue in force until the 31st of December
in the year in which it is granted