Delivery of
goods on production of
ticket and repayment.
Exceptions to duty to deliver goods
Protection of owners and of pawners not having .pawntickets.
Issue of search warrant for
goods pawned
without privity of
owner,
Unredeemed
goods to become the
property of pawnbroker.
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16. On the tender of any such ticket, together with the full amount then due for principal and simple interest, if male within eight mouths from the day of making of the loan in the case of goods pawned in the Island of Hong Kong, Kowloon or New Kowloon, or if made within twelve months from the day of making the loan in the case of goods pawned in any part of the New Territories other than New Kowloon, the pawnbroker shall deliver up to the person tendering the ticket the goods described therein and shall give him a receipt for the amount paid for principal and interest.
17. Section 16 shall not apply to cases where, at or previously to such tender, the pawnbroker bas had from the borrower or the owner of the goods notice not to deliver the same, or has had knowledge or notice that the same have been, or are suspected to have been, unlawfully obtained from or lost by the owner, or to tickets as to which the borrower has taken such proceedings as are provided by section 18, in all which cases the pawnbroker shall withhold the goods.
18.-(1) On the application of any person representing himself to be the borrower or the owner of the goods or ticket, as the case may be, and to have lost or been unlaw- fully deprived of the same, the pawnbroker shall, if the goods are still unredeemed or unsold, forthwith deliver to such applicant a copy of the entry in the General Book, and the said applicaut shall immediately thereupon proceed to a magistrate and shall verify such representa- tion by written information on oath before such magis-
trate.
(2) If the said applicant verifies such representation to the satisfaction of the magistrate, and obtains a certificate to that effect, indorsed upon the said copy, the pawn- broker shall, on the copy so indorsed being delivered by the said applicant, deliver to him, according to the circum- stances of the case and as the magistrate may order, another ticket or the goods, either with or without pay- ment of the principal or interest, or both principal and interest, as the magistrate may direct.
19. A magistrate shall, upon written information on oath being laid before him that there are probable grounds for believing that any goods have been pawned without the privity of their owner, issue his warrant for searching any place where the goods may appear to him to be and, if any of the goods are discovered upon such search, the person executing the warrant shall take them or cause them to be taken into safe keeping to abide the order of a magistrate.
20. Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, goods pawned shall, from and after the expiration of the autho- rised period mentioned in section 16, become, if the same are unredeemed, the property of the pawnbroker abso- Intely: Provided uevertheless that if before the expira- tion of any such period the borrower is desirous of continu- ing the loan for a further period not exceeding eight months, or twelve months, as the case may be, the pawn- broker shall allow him to do so on his paying the interest then due. In any such case a new ticket shall be issued and a new entry shall be made in the General Book,
Information 21.--() Every person applying to borrow shall, at the to be given time of his application, give to the pawnbroker to whom by applicant, such application is made true information so as to enable him to comply with the requirements of sections 13 and
14.
(2) Every person applying to redeem goods or for a copy of an entry shall, at the time of his application, give to the person to whom such application is made a full and true account of himself, his name, his place of abode, the name and place of abode of the owner, and the circum- stances under which his application is made,
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