PART I. Licence to be void The Marine Stores Act.-1898-9. On a second conviction for any offence against sub-section 1. of this section the offender's licence shall be from thenceforth forfeited on second conviction. and void, and he shall be thenceforth incapable of holding a collector's licence. May be arrested without warrant. Collectors to be licensed. Licence not to be borrowed. Dealers only to purchase marine stores No one but a licensed collector to accompany truck. It shall be lawful for any person, without warrant, to arrest any offender against any of the provisions of sub-sections VII. and VIII. of this section and to deliver him into the custody of any police constable, who shall then apprehend such offender and take him in due course before any two Justices or a Special Magistrate to be dealt with for his offence. 7. If any person shall 1. Act as a collector without being licensed so to do; or II. Hire or borrow or act as a collector with or under color of any licence issued to any other person, or of any licence in which his own real name is not inserted as the name of the person to whom the same is granted; or III. Not being a licensed dealer, purchase or receive from any collector any marine stores other than glass bottles; or IV. Not being a licensed collector, accompany any truck then being used in the business of collecting marine stores; or v. Not being a licensed collector, wear, for the purpose of passing as a licensed collector, or for the purpose of engaging in or assisting in carrying on the business of a collector, any badge prescribed: he shall be guilty of an offence against this Act, and shall forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds, or be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two calendar months. On a second conviction for any offence against sub-section 11. of this section the person so convicted shall be rendered incapable of being licensed as a collector. PART II. Dealers must be licensed. PART II. DEALERS. 8. If any person shall act as a dealer without being licensed so to do he shall be guilty of an offence against this Act, and shall forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds or be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two calendar months. 9. A The Marine Stores Act.-1898-9. PART II. 9. A dealer's licence, in the form in the Third Schedule hereto, may be granted and issued, and a transfer thereof to any person or Application for premises may be permitted by the Special Magistrate presiding at dealer's licence or the Local Court nearest to the premises in respect of which the licence is applied for or was granted. transfer. thereof. 10. No dealer's licence shall be granted or issued or any transfer Notice of application thereof permitted unless the applicant therefor shall, ten days at the for licence or transfer least before his application, give or send by registered letter to the clerk of the Local Court and to the Commissioner of Police a notice in writing signed by him of his intention to apply for the same, setting forth his name and address and the place where his business is intended to be carried on. The Commissioner of Police or any Police may show person authorised by him may show cause against the granting of cause. any such application. The sum of One Pound shall be paid for Fee for dealer's every dealer's licence. licence. 11. Every application for permission to transfer a dealer's licence Proposed transferee to any person shall be made by the proposed transferee. to be applicant. 12. When the transfer of a dealer's licence to any person or Indorsement of perpremises is permitted the fact and date of such permission, and the mission to transfer. name and description of the person to whom or description of the premises to which the licence is permitted to be transferred, shall be indorsed upon such licence, and the person named as the transferee or the premises described in such indorsement shall thereupon and thenceforth for all purposes be deemed to be the person to whom or the premises in respect of which the licence was granted. 13. If any licensed dealer shall not 1. Cause to be painted and kept painted in such manner as may Name, &c., to be painted on outside of premises. 11. Keep every part of his business premises closed during the Premises to be closed whole of every Sunday and public holiday, and between during certain hours. the hours of six o'clock in the afternoon of every day except Saturday and Sunday and eight o'clock on the following morning, and also from two o'clock in the afternoon of every Saturday and eight o'clock on the following Monday morning; or III. Enter in a book, in the form in the Fourth Schedule to this Entry to be made on Act, the name of every person to whom he shall lend or let letting truck. on hire, whether gratuitously or otherwise, any truck, and the date when and the period for which such truck shall be PART 11. Book to be kept showing marine stores purchased or received. Book to be kept showing marine stores sold or disposed of. Dealer to inform police when articles supposed to be stolen come into his possession. Form of marine stores not to be changed for seven days. Dealer to carry on business on licensed premises only. Dealer to produce licence. Trucks to be lent to licensed collectors only. The Marine Stores Act.-1898-9. IV. Keep a book fairly, in the form set forth in the Fifth Schedule hereto, and enter therein an account of all such marine stores as he may from time to time become possessed of, stating in respect of each article the day and hour upon and at which, and the person by or through whom and the person from whom he purchased or received the same, adding a true description of the business and place of abode of such last-mentioned person; or v. Keep a book, in the form set forth in the Sixth Schedule hereto, and enter therein an account of all such marine stores as he may from time to time sell or dispose of, stating in respect of each article the day upon which and the name of the person by or through whom and the person to whom he sold or disposed of the same, adding a true description, if known to him, of the business and place of abode of such last-mentioned person; or VI. Produce to any police constable, whenever thereto requested, the book or books by this Act required to be kept by him, and any marine stores purchased or received by him then in his possession; or VII. Without delay give notice to the officer on duty at the police station nearest to any place where he carries on business of any article which may come into his possession answering the description of any article described as having been stolen, embezzled, or fraudulently obtained, in any written or printed information given to him by any member of the Police Force; or VIII. Keep all marine stores purchased or received by him without changing the form in which they were when so purchased, or disposing of the same in any way for a period of seven days after such marine stores have been purchased or received: he shall be guilty of an offence against this Act, and forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds or be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two calendar months. 14. If any licensed dealer shall— 1. Carry on the business of a dealer upon any other premises than those to which his licence applies; or 11. At any time upon demand made to him upon any part of the premises upon which he carries on the business of a dealer by any Justice of the Peace or member of the Police Force refuse or fail to produce and show to such Justice of the Peace or member of the Police Force his licence in force at the time of such demand; or III. Lend or let on hire any truck to any person other than a a licensed collector; or iv. Charge The Marine Stores Act.-1898-9. PART II. IV. Charge for the use or hire of any truck any sum exceeding Not to make excessive the maximum amount prescribed; or charge for use of trucks. be purchased from persons under sixteen. v. By himself or any other person on his behalf purchase or Marine stores not to receive any marine stores from any person apparently under the age of sixteen years; or VI. By himself or any other person on his behalf purchase or receive any marine stores of any description before the hour of nine o'clock in the morning or after the hour of six o'clock in the evening, or employ any person under the age of eighteen years to purchase or receive marine stores of any description: he shall be guilty of an offence against this Act, and shall forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds or be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two calendar months. Restriction on purchase or receipt of marine stores. PART III. PART III. 15. Every person ceases to be licensed on the expiration, revo- Ceasing to be cation, or forfeiture of his licence. licensed. 16. Every licence issued under this Act, unless sooner revoked Expiration of licence. or forfeited, shall be in force from the day following the date thereof until the thirty-first day of December then next following. No person shall hold both a collector's and a dealer's licence. 17. In any prosecution under this Act any allegation in any information that any person is unlicensed need not be proved, and such person shall be deemed to be unlicensed until the contrary be proved by the production of a licence or otherwise. No person to hold both a collector's and dealer's licence. Presumption that persons unlicensed. marine stores. 18. Marine stores shall be deemed to be in the possession of a Presumption of dealer when they are placed in any house, outhouse, yard, garden, or place occupied by him, or shall have been removed with his knowledge and permission to any other place without a bona fide sale of such marine stores having been made by him. 19. Every entry in any book kept or belonging to any dealer, or found on his licensed premises, shall be deemed, unless the contrary be shown, to have been made by or with the authority of such dealer. revoked. 20. Any Special Magistrate or two Justices sitting in open Court Licences may be may on the complaint of any person that any licensed person has been guilty of any violation of any of the provisions of this Act or of any regulations, or that such person is in any other respect unfit to hold any licence, revoke such licence by any order under his or their hands and seals. PART III. The Marine Stores Act.-1898-9. 21. The clerk of any Court at which any licence is granted, Register to be kept. permitted to be transferred, or revoked shall enter particulars of the same in a register to be kept in such Court, and shall send a copy of such entries to the Commissioner of Police, who shall cause the same to be entered in a register to be kept at his office and at any other place which may be prescribed. Inspectors, &c, to visit dealers' premises. Constable may be authorised to search dealer's premises. Suspicious offering of marine stores, 22. Any justice or commissioner, inspector, or sub-inspector of police, may, or any sergeant or constable of police authorised by the same in writing, may, at any time by day or night, demand entrance into the place of business of any dealer, or the appurtenances thereof, and inspect the marine stores and books of any dealer therein, and may record in the books by this Act required to be kept the day and hour of his visit and write his initials or name opposite the entry relat ing to any article examined by him. If, after demand, admittance be refused or be delayed for such time as shall make it appear that wilful delay was intended, the offender shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding Fifty Pounds, and such Justice, commissioner, inspector, sub-inspector, sergeant, or constable may break into such place of business or the appurtenances thereof. 23. Any Justice of the Peace, upon complaint made before him by any person that the complainant has reason to believe and does believe that any marine stores stolen or unlawfully obtained are kept in any house, shop, room, or place by any dealer may, by warrant, authorise any constable, with such assistance as may be necessary, to enter such house, shop, room, or place, either by day or night, and to search for and seize all such marine stores there found, and to carry the same before the same or some other Justice, and such Justice shall thereupon issue a summons requiring such dealer to appear before such Justices as may be present at a time and place to be named in such summons, and if such dealer shall not then and there prove to the satisfaction of such Justices how he came by such marine stores, or if it shall be proved to the satisfaction of such Justices that at the time such dealer received such marine stores, or any of them, he had reasonable cause to believe them or some of them to have been stolen or unlawfully obtained, then, and in either of such cases, such dealer shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds, or, at the discretion of such Justices, to imprisonment with or without hard labor for a term not exceeding three calendar months. 24. In case any person who shall offer to any dealer, his servant, or agent, by way of sale or exchange, any marine stores shall refuse or not be able to give a satisfactory account of himself or of the means by which he became possessed thereof, or shall wilfully give any false information to the dealer or to his servant or agent as to whether such marine stores are his property or not, or of his name or place of abode, or of the name or place of abode of the owner of the said marine stores, or if there shall be any other reason to suspect |