New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PAWNBROKERS AND SECOND-HAND DEALERS ACT 1996 - SECT 15

15 Evidence of identity and title of supplier of goods

(1) On each occasion before accepting any goods offered for sale or pawn, a licensee must obtain evidence of the identity of the person by whom the goods are being offered.

(1A) The evidence must include documentary evidence that shows the person's name and address, being evidence of a kind prescribed by the regulations, and must also include other evidence of any further particulars relating to the identity of the person that are required by the regulations.

(1B) The regulations may provide for that additional evidence to be in oral or documentary form and may prescribe the kind of evidence required.

(2) A licensee must not accept any goods offered for sale or pawn if the licensee has reasonable grounds to believe that the goods concerned are not the property of the person by whom they are offered or of any person for whom that person is authorised to make the offer.

(3) A licensee must not accept any goods offered for sale or pawn without first complying with any requirements of the regulations relating to ascertaining the title to the goods.

(4) A person must not, in purported compliance with any requirement reasonably made of the person by a licensee for the purposes of the licensee's compliance with this section, furnish information or make any statement knowing that it is false in a material particular.

: Maximum penalty--50 penalty units.