Pawnbrokers. |Ch. 31. No. 12.

 

37. A person intending to apply for a certificate under this
Ordinance shall, twenty-one days at least before the
application, give notice by registered letter sent by post
of his intention to the Magistrate of the district, and to
the Commissioner of Police, and shall in the notice set forth
his name and address and the district within which he
intends to carry on his business. The Commissioner of
Police shall forthwith cause notice of such application to be
published in the Royal Gazette.

38. An application for a certificate shall not be refused,
‘xcept on the following grounds, or one of them—

(a) that the applicant has failed to produce satis-
factory evidence that he is a fit and proper person to
hold a licence ;

(b) that the shop in which he intends to carry on the
business of a pawnbroker, or any adjacent house or
place owned or occupied by him, is frequented by
thieves or persons of bad character ;

(c) that he has not complied with the last preceding
section.

39. (1) If any person forges a certificate, or tenders a
certificate knowing it to be forged, he shall be liable, on
summary conviction, to a fine of ninety-six dollars,

(2) A licence granted in pursuance of a forged
certificate shall be void; and if any person makes use of a
forged certificate, knowing it to be forged, he shall be
disqualified from obtaining at any time thereafter a pawn-
broker’s licence.

40. (1) A pawnbroker shall not transfer his pawnbroking
business to premises other than those specified in_ his
licence, except with the consent of the Magistrate of the
district, which consent shall not be given until the Com-
missioner of Police has been notified of the proposed transfer,
and has had an opportunity of objecting to the same.

(2) Any pawnbroker contravening the provisions of
this section shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine
of forty-eight dollars.

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Notice of
application.

Grounds of
refusal of
certificate.

Forgery of
certificate.

Transfer of
business to
other
premiscs.