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(b) The form of the register to be kept and the
particulars to be entered therein.
(c) The fees to be paid for registration and renewal of registration and the inspection of the register and the taking of copies of entries therein.
(d) The form of agreement to be used under this
Ordinance.
(e) Such other matters as may be necessary for the carrying into effect of the provisions of this Ordinance.
(2) All regulations made under this Ordinance shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the first meeting thereof held after the publication in the Gazette of the making of such regulations, and, if a resolution be passed at the first meeting of the Legislative Council held after such regulations have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any regulation shall be rescinded, or amended in any manner whatsoever, the said regulation shall, without prejudice to anything done thereunder, be deemed to be rescinded, or amended as the case may be, as from the date of the publication in the Gazette of the passing of such resolution.
4. Any money-lender's licence issued previously old licence shall, upon the commencement of this Ordinance, invalidated. become and be null and void.
5.-(1) No person shall carry on the business of a Licence. money-lender unless he is the holder of a money- lender's licence.
(2) Every such licence shall (subject to a right of appeal to the Governor in Council) be granted or renewed by and at the discretion of the Registrar on such conditions tonching fees or otherwise as may be prescribed by the Governor in Council, and in the meanwhile subject to the payment of an annual fee of twenty-five dollars, which shall be payable in advance.
(3) Every licence shall (subject to the provisions of sub-section (4) hereof) endure for one year, but may be renewed by the Registrar from year to year.
(4) Upon his application in writing, the licence of any money-lender may be cancelled and his name may be removed from the register. No refund of any portion of the licence fee shall be made upon any such removal.
6. Every money-lender, whether previously regis- Registration tered under the Money-lenders Ordinance, 1911, or of Money- not,
(a) shall take out a licence as a money-lender under this Ordinance and shall register with the Registrar under his own or usual trade name, and in no other naine, and shall also register the address at which he carries on his business of money-lender, and shall not be entitled to register more than one such address;
(6) shall carry on the money lending business in his registered name, and under no other name, and at his registered address, and at no other address ;
() shall not in the course of his business enter into any agreement with respect to the advance or repayment of money, or take any security for money, otherwise than in his registered name.
lenders.