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Part 2Licences and certificates
Obligations of certificate holders

32Obligation to show certificate

  1. At any time when a certificate holder is engaged in secondhand dealing or pawnbroking, he or she must, on request by a constable, show his or her certificate to that constable.

  2. A certificate holder commits an offence, and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000, if he or she fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a request under subsection (1).

  3. Section 83 applies to a charge under subsection (2).

Notes
  • Section 32(1): amended, on , pursuant to section 116(a)(ii) of the Policing Act 2008 (2008 No 72).
  • Section 32(2): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).