A.D. 1860.]

IMPERIAL ENACTMENTS.

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Statute and Chapter: of Act.

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SCHEDULE.

TABLE OF ENACTMENTS EXTENDED.

How much of the Act is extended.

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19 & 20 Vict, c. 64.

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19 & 20 Vict. c. 94.

An Act to repeal certain

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An Act for the uni-form Administration of Intestates' Estates.

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19 & 20 Vict, c. 120.

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An Act to facilitate Leases and Sales of Settled Estates.

The whole of the Act.

The whole of the Act,

except in so far as it may be deemed to affect the customs or usages of Chinese people, touching the distribution of the personal estate of Chinese dying intestate.

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The whole of the Act, except so

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ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1860.

ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1860.

AN ORDINANCE to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to

A.D. 1860.

Pawnbrokers.

[16th April, 1860.]

Ordinance No. 3 of 1860, with Ordi-nances No. A of 1892 and

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the

No. 20 of 1896

Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

incorporated. See also Or-dinance No. 4 of 1875.

Definition of pawnbroker.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Pawnbrokers Ordinance, 1860.

2. Every person who purchases, receives, or takes in any goods, and

pays money for or advances money upon the same, to an amount not exceeding five hundred dollars, with or under any undertaking, agree-ment, or condition, express, implied, or reasonably inferrible from the nature or character of the dealing or the usage in respect thereof, that the said goods in whole or in part may be afterwards redeemed or re-purchased upon any terms soever, shall be deemed to be a pawnbroker within the meaning of this Ordinance.

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