New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PAWNBROKERS AND SECOND-HAND DEALERS ACT 1996 - SECT 29B

29B Pawn agreement not to be varied

(1) A pawn agreement may not be varied (whether by alteration of the agreement or by a further agreement) except--

(a) in accordance with section 29A or any other Act, or

(b) as permitted by the regulations.

(2) If a pawn agreement is varied in contravention of subsection (1), the pawnbroker by or on whose behalf the agreement was entered into is guilty of an offence.

: Maximum penalty--50 penalty units.

(3) However, a pawnbroker is not liable to be punished twice in respect of the same variation (that is, under this section and also under section 29A or any other Act).