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Secondhand Dealers and Pawnbrokers Act 2004

Licensing Authorities of secondhand dealers and pawnbrokers, and miscellaneous provisions - Licensing Authorities and Deputy Licensing Authorities

74B: Contempt of Licensing Authority

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"Disrespecting the Licensing Authority can get you in trouble"

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You can get in trouble if you insult or obstruct a Licensing Authority or their staff. You can also get in trouble if you insult or obstruct people at a Licensing Authority meeting. You must follow the rules and orders of a Licensing Authority. If you do not follow the rules, you can be fined up to $1,000. A Licensing Authority can also ask you to leave a meeting if you are behaving badly. They can get help from the police to make you leave. You must behave and follow the orders of a Licensing Authority when you are at a meeting. If you do not, you might get in trouble and have to pay a fine or leave the meeting.

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Part 4Licensing Authorities of secondhand dealers and pawnbrokers, and miscellaneous provisions
Licensing Authorities and Deputy Licensing Authorities

74BContempt of Licensing Authority

  1. A person commits an offence if the person—

  2. wilfully insults or obstructs a Licensing Authority or any witness or officer of a Licensing Authority during a sitting of a Licensing Authority or while a Licensing Authority, a witness, or an officer is going to, or returning from, a sitting of a Licensing Authority; or
    1. wilfully insults or obstructs any person in attendance at a sitting of a Licensing Authority; or
      1. wilfully interrupts, or otherwise misbehaves at, a sitting of a Licensing Authority; or
        1. wilfully and without lawful excuse disobeys any order or direction of a Licensing Authority in the course of the hearing of any proceedings.

          1. A person who commits an offence against subsection (1) is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000.

          2. A Licensing Authority may order the exclusion from a sitting of that Authority of any person whose behaviour, in the opinion of the Licensing Authority, constitutes an offence against subsection (1), whether or not the person is charged with the offence, and any officer of a Licensing Authority or constable may take any steps that are reasonably necessary to enforce the exclusion.

          Notes
          • Section 74B: inserted, on , by section 294 of the Tribunals Powers and Procedures Legislation Act 2018 (2018 No 51).