Western Australian Current Acts

PAWNBROKERS AND SECOND-HAND DEALERS ACT 1994 - SECT 78

78 .         Police to be informed in certain circumstances

                A pawnbroker or second-hand dealer who suspects for any reason that goods —

            (a)         in the possession of the pawnbroker or dealer may have been stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained must without delay inform a member of the Police Force of the suspicion and provide a description of the goods; or

            (b)         which the pawnbroker is offered for pawn or the dealer is offered for exchange or sale may have been stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained must without delay inform a member of the Police Force of the suspicion and provide a description of the goods and of the person who offered the goods.

        Penalty: $2 000.