New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PAWNBROKERS AND SECOND-HAND DEALERS ACT 1996 - SECT 19

19 Duty to report suspicious goods

(1) A licensee, and any employee of a licensee, who suspects for any reason that goods in the custody of the licensee or employee in the course of the licensee's business, or goods that are offered to the licensee or employee for sale or pawn, may have been stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained must without delay inform an authorised officer of the cause of that suspicion.

: Maximum penalty--50 penalty units.

(2) If the licensee or employee is aware that the unique identifier of the goods has been removed, obliterated, defaced or altered, the licensee or employee is presumed (for the purposes of this section) to suspect that the goods may have been stolen.

(3) In this section,
"unique identifier" of goods means any numbers, letters or symbols that are marked on or attached to the goods as a permanent record so as to enable the goods to be distinguished from similar goods.