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after such regulations have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any such regulation shall be rescinded, or amended in any manner whatsoever, the said regulation shall, without prejudice to anything done there- under, be deemed to be rescinded or amended, as the case may be, as from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of such resolution.
(3) The regulations in the Schedules shall be in force, as if made by the Governor in Council, until rescinded by the Governor in Council,
Servant,
4. For the purposes of this Ordinance anything done agent, etc., of or omitted by the servant or agent of a pawnbroker in pawnbrokers, the course of or in relation to the business of the pawn- broker shall be deemed to be done or omitted (as the case may be) by the pawnbroker; and anything by this Ordi- nance authorised to be done by a pawnbroker may be done by his servant, or agent.
Assigns, executors, ete., of pawners.
Non- application to loans
above $500.
Licence.
Grant and duration of licence.
First Schedule.
Restriction of trade to
5. The rights, powers, and benefits by this Ordinance reserved to and conferred on pawners shall extend to and be deemed to be reserved to and conferred on the assigns- of pawners, and to and on the exccutors or administrators of deceased pawners; but any person representing himself to a pawnbroker to be the assign, executor, or adminis- trator of a pawner shall, if required by the pawnbroker, produce to the pawnbroker the assignment, probate, letters of administration, or other instrument under which he claims.
6. Nothing in this Ordinance shall apply to a loan by a pawnbroker of above five hundred dollars, or to the pledge on which the loan is made, or to the pawnbroker or pawner in relation to the loan or pledge; and, notwith- standing anything in this Ordinance, a person shall not be deemed a pawnbroker by reason only of his paying, advancing, or lending on any terms any sum or sums of above five hundred dollars.
7. No person shall carry on the trade or business of a pawnbroker in any premises except under and in accordance with a valid pawnbroker's licence in respect thereof on which any fees then due shall have been paid.
8.-(1) 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 Inspector General of Police on such conditions touching fees or otherwise as may be prescribed by the Governor in Council, and, in the meanwhile, subject to the payment of the fees set forth in the scule of fees in the First Schedule hereto.
(2) A licence shall be valid for one year only commenc- ing on the date on which it is issued; but it may be renewed at the like discretion from year to year.
(3) All such fees shall be paid in advance: Provided always that if any licensee is unwilling to pay the whole fee in advance it shall be lawful for him to pay it in quarterly instalments in advance on finding security for such instalments to the satisfaction of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
9. No pawnbroker shall, during the continuance of his licence, carry on any trade or occupation, in his place of pawnbroking. business a such pawnbroker, except that of pawnbroking and the sale of pledges forfeited under the provisions of this Ordinance.
Notification of name and
nature of business.
10. Every pawnbroker shall cause to be painted and kept painted in large and legible English letters and Chinese characters, over the door of his said place of business, his or his firm's name at length, with the addi- tion of the word "Pawnbroker” after the English name and of the word after the Chinese name.
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