-50
Hours of business.
Procedure.
Delivery to owner of property unlawfully pawned, with or without
compensation to
pawnbroker.
Penalties for offences.
No. 1 of 1860.
PAWNBROKERS.
22. No goods shall be pawned or redeemed before 6 a.m. or after 8 p.m.
23. All adjudications and certificates under this Ordinance shall be summarily held, determined and granted by a magistrate and enforced according to the laws relating to the jurisdiction of magistrates.
24. In each of the following cases, that is to say,
(1) if any person is convicted of feloniously taking or fraudulently obtaining any goods and chattels, and it appears to the court that the same have been pawned with a pawnbroker; or
(2) if, in any proceedings before a magistrate, it appears that any goods and chattels brought before him have been unlawfully pawned with a pawnbroker,
the court or magistrate, on proof of the ownership of the goods and chattels, may order the delivery thereof to the owner, either on payment to the pawnbroker of the amount of the loan advanced by him thereon, or of any part thereof, or without payment of such loan or any part thereof, as to the court or magistrate, according to the conduct of the owner and pawnbroker and the other circumstances of the case, may seem just and fitting.
25. For every offence against this Ordinance there shall be imposed the penalties following:---
(1) under sections 3, 5, 6, 7, and 9 to 14, a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, together with the forfeiture of the offender's licence, if the magistrate so directs;
(2) under section 17, imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years;
(3) under sections 18 or 20, a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, together with the forfeiture of the offender's licence, if the magistrate so directs;
(4) under section 21, a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, together with the forfeiture of the offender's licence, if the magistrate so directs;
(5) under section 22, a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.
[s. 26, rep. No. 50 of 1911.]