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offered for sale or for delivery to be reweighed, and to require the driver to produce the ticket thereof, as a check on the conduct of drivers and others, such reweighing being always done free of expense.

420. Retailers of coals to keep scales and weights for weighing at the time of delivery. For the purpose of ascertaining the weight of coals sold in quantities of less than half a ton within any yard or place where they may be kept, or from any cart or carriage on which they may be carried by dealers for sale, such dealers shall be obliged to keep scales and weights or steelyards of the legal standard within such yard or other place, and also attached to the cart or carriage used by them for the sale of such coals, whereby the coals so sold by retail may be weighed at the time of the sale or delivery, and such dealers shall be obliged to weigh the same, upon being required to do so either by the person purchasing the same or by any officer of police; and any such dealer failing to have and keep such scales and weights or steelyards, or refusing to weigh the coals as aforesaid, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings, and five pounds for any subsequent offence.

421. Regulations as to sale of coals of half a ton weight.-Any person who shall sell any quantity of coals equal to or exceeding half a ton weight, shall be bound to deliver to the carter, or person in charge of the said coals, to be given to the purchaser, an account or memorandum specifying the true tare of the cart or carriage conveying the said coals, and the true weight and price of the coals, and the exact time the cart or carriage has left the premises of the seller, under a penalty of twenty shillings for each offence in any one of such particulars.

422. Carter to deliver memorandum.-The carter or person in charge of the said coals shall be bound to exhibit such account or memorandum to any police constable who may demand the same, and immediately on his arrival at the place of delivery shall deliver the same to the purchaser or inmate or other person in charge of the house or place of delivery, under a penalty of twenty shillings for each offence in either of the said particulars.

423. Penalty on driver refusing to weigh.-If any driver or other person having the charge of any cart or carriage shall not, upon being so required as aforesaid, take the same to any such public weighing machine, or shall refuse to assist in the weighing of the same in such manner as the drivers of carts or carriages are used and accustomed to do, such driver or other person shall for each offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings.

424. Small quantities of coals to be sold from carts and in labelled bags.-Every person who sells or delivers coals in quantities not exceeding two hundredweight in weight from any cart or carriage shall keep the specific quantities of coals to be sold by him made up in bags or boxes labelled in such a manner as to indicate the weight which such bag or box contains, and any such person failing to comply with this provision shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings.

425. Penalty on fraudulent weighing.—If the keeper of any weighing machine used within the burgh for the purpose of ascertaining the weight of coals, or the seller of any coals which shall be weighed at such weighing machine, or any of their respective servants, shall wilfully, on application, refuse duly to weigh or reweigh any cart or carriage, with or without loading, or shall designedly do or omit to do anything with intent that the true weight or measurement of any coals weighed thereat shall not be ascertained, or if the owner or driver or other person having the charge of any cart or carriage shall place or knowingly have any article, matter, or thing in or about such cart or carriage, other than the proper load therein, or shall alter the tare or weight, or the ticket denoting the weight, of any

cart or carriage, or the loading thereof, or shall make, use, or be privy to the making or using, any false or fraudulent ticket respecting the weight of any such cart or carriage or loading, or if by reweighing or otherwise it shall be discovered that any coals have been abstracted by such owner, driver, person in charge, keeper, or servant, from such cart or carriage, after it shall have passed the steelyard or weighing machine where it was originally weighed, or if the owner or driver or person in charge of any cart or carriage, or the keeper of any machine as aforesaid, or his servants, shall make or give or use, or be privy to the making or giving or using, any false or fraudulent contrivance touching the weight of any cart or carriage, or the load therein, or shall knowingly assist in or connive at any fraud in or concerning the weight of any cart or carriage, or of the load therein, or if any other person shall knowingly aid or assist in the committing of any fraud respecting the weight of any cart or carriage, or the load therein, weighed, or stated or represented to be weighed, at any such machine as aforesaid, then and in every such case every person so offending shall for every offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds, or to be imprisoned for any period not exceeding sixty days without the option of a fine.

426. Regulations may be made for preventing fraud in weight of hay, straw, &c. -In order to prevent fraud in the weight of grain, hay, and straw, or other commodities usually weighed in carts or carriages, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners to make regulations for ascertaining the weight or quantity of grain, hay, or straw, or other commodities brought within the burgh, upon parties voluntarily resorting to the said weighing machines for the purpose, and for the magistrate to punish persons disobeying such regulations, by seizing, forfeiting, and selling such grain, hay, and straw, or other commodities so brought in contravention of such regulations, or by imposing on the offender a penalty to the extent and in the manner before described in respect of coals which have not been duly weighed, and also to fine any person driving carts or carriages from which grain, hay, or straw, or other commodities shall have been fraudulently taken or embezzled, and any person accessory to such fraudulent taking or embezzlement, in any penalty not exceeding five pounds, or to sentence him to imprisonment for any period not exceeding sixty days without the option of a fine.

427. Penalty on committing frauds in weight of bread.-All bakers and dealers in bread shall, on all bread made or exposed by them for sale (except fancy bread or rolls), impress thereon, in large and distinct figures, the imperial weight of such bread; and any person who shall expose or offer for sale, or sell any bread not so impressed shall be liable in a penalty not exceeding forty shillings for each offence; and any person who shall sell, or offer or expose for sale, any bread which shall be deficient or under the weight so impressed, shall be liable in a penalty not exceeding forty shillings for each offence.

428. Power to seize diseased cattle.-In the case of cattle infected with or suspected of any disease within the meaning of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Acts, 1878 to 1890, being exposed or offered for sale, or being brought or attempted to be brought through any street or into any market or fair, any inspector, collector, or constable may seize any such cattle, and cause the same to be inspected by a veterinary inspector, and may report such seizures to any magistrate, and such magistrate may, after hearing the evidence, either order such cattle to be restored, or direct the same, and also any pens, hurdles, troughs, litter, hay, straw, and other articles which he may deem likely to have been infected thereby, to be forthwith destroyed, or otherwise disposed of; and any person bringing or attempting to bring any cattle through any street, or into any market or fair, knowing the same to be labouring under any such disease, shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.

Repealed 1903 Act, Schedule.

429. Power to proceed against original seller of diseased cattle, do.-Where any person is convicted by any magistrate of the offence of selling or exposing for sale, or of having in his possession for sale, any unsound or diseased animal or diseased meat, or any animal or meat unfit for the food of man, and intended for such food, it shall also be lawful for the burgh prosecutor to proceed against the original seller of such animal or meat as if he were an offender art and part with the convicted person, and as if he had committed such offence within the burgh, provided that such animal or meat were unsound or diseased, or unfit for the food of man, at the time of the sale thereof by such original seller to the convicted person; and the purchase by the convicted person or by any one on his behalf, from such original seller, wheresoever made or carried out, shall be taken and held to be a sale by such original seller of the animal or meat in question within the burgh, in premises kept and used for the sale of animals or meat; and the penalty and punishment provided by this Act against the person convicted shall also be applicable to and be leviable and recoverable from such original seller, and all the powers, authorities, jurisdiction, and forms of procedure given and provided by this Act against the convicted person shall be applicable to the prosecution, trial, and punishment of such original seller.

430. Chief constable or inspector to have power to enter premises and require articles to be weighed.-The chief constable, or any other constable specially appointed to perform the duty by the chief constable, or any inspector of weights and measures in the burgh, may, at all reasonable hours, enter any building or part of a building, or other place within the burgh in which any article is sold, or is made up, or kept or exposed for sale by weight or measure, or in which articles are sold or are set apart, or kept or exposed for sale in numbers, or in which any article is weighed or measured, or any articles are numbered with a view to their being bought or sold, or he may stop any cart or carriage, or any person carrying or in charge of any basket from which such articles are sold, or kept or exposed for sale, on the street, public or private, and require such article or articles to be weighed, measured, or numbered in his presence; and if the weight, measure, or number thereof ascertained does not correspond with the weight, measure, or number thereof which has been represented by the person who has sold or made up, or kept or exposed the same for sale, or who weighed, measured, or numbered the same with a view to purchase or sale, such chief constable or other constable or inspector may seize, impound, and convey such article or articles to the police office, or to an office provided for the purpose by the Commissioners, and the magistrate may sentence the person who has sold or made up, or kept or exposed the same for sale, and who has incorrectly weighed, measured, or numbered the same with a view to purchase or sale, to a penalty not exceeding five pounds, and declare such article or articles in so far as belonging to such person to be forfeited, unless such person shall prove to his satisfaction that the deficiency in weight, measure, or number has arisen without any fraudulent intent.

431. Offences under Weights and Measures Acts or Criminal Law Amendment Act.-All offences committed within the burgh under the Weights and Measures Acts, 1878 and 1889, and under the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885, in so far as it relates to the suppression of brothels, may be tried by the magistrate as police offences under complaint by the burgh prosecutor; and the penalties may be recovered and applied in the same way as penalties for police offences under this Act; and the magistrates shall be the local authority, and the word "burgh " in the said Weights and Measures Acts shall include any burgh under this Act.

432. Authority under Sale of Food and Drugs and Bakehouses Regulation Acts.-The Commissioners of any burgh under this Act shall be the local authority

under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875, and also under the Bakehouses Regulation Act, 1863, and all offences committed in the burgh under any of the said Acts may be brought before and tried by the magistrate as police offences under complaint by the burgh prosecutor, and the fines and penalties may be recovered and applied in the same way as fines and penalties for police offences under this Act.

BROKERS AND PAWNBROKERS.

433. Brokers to be licensed.-From and after the commencement of this Act no person shall within the burgh exercise or carry on the trade or business of a broker (which for the purposes of this Act shall also include dealers in second-hand goods, known as "general dealers ") unless he shall have first obtained a license so to do from the magistrates, which license such magistrates shall have a discretionary power of granting or refusing as they shall see cause, and which, when granted, shall continue in force until the term of Whitsunday in each year, and no longer, unless sooner revoked or suspended, which the magistrates are hereby authorised to do, on legal conviction of any violation of any of the conditions of such license, or of the provisions of this Act; and every person applying for such license, or a renewal thereof, shall pay to the clerk a sum not exceeding two shillings and sixpence as the expense attending such application, and of recording the same, and the deliverance of the magistrates thereon, and of such license or renewal, if granted, in a book to be kept by him for that purpose; and if any person shall within the burgh exercise or carry on the trade or business of a broker without having first obtained such license as aforesaid, or after the revocation or during the suspension thereof, or shall contravene the terms of such license or any of the provisions of this Act, such person shall for each such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds: Provided always, that it shall not be lawful for the magistrates to grant any such broker's license to any licensed pawnbroker carrying on business as such; but nothing in this provision shall be held to apply to the sale of goods bona fide forfeited in accordance with the Pawnbrokers Act, 1872.

434. Brokers to furnish a description of their premises, and keep books.-Every person who shall apply to be licensed as a broker shall, at the time of his applica tion, and at Whitsunday yearly thereafter, furnish to the clerk in writing a description of his premises, including all cellars, closets, and other places proposed to be used by him in the course of his trade; and all brokers shall enter in books to be kept by them on the premises the particulars of each transaction in their business, which particulars shall contain a proper and distinctive description of each article purchased or received by them, the name and place of abode of the person from whom they have purchased or received the same, and the date and hour of the day of each such transaction, and the price paid or agreed to be paid for such articles; and if any such broker shall fail to keep such book, or to enter therein the particulars before mentioned, he shall for each offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

435. Brokers to retain articles for fourteen days after having received them.-All articles purchased or received by such brokers shall be kept by them in their shops or other places where their ordinary business is carried on for the full period of fourteen days from and after the date on which it shall appear from their books that such articles have been purchased or received; and every broker shall attach to each article a ticket or label with the date of purchase or receipt written thereon; and every broker who shall fail to attach such ticket or label, or who shall sell or otherwise dispose of or remove from his premises as aforesaid any such

articles before the expiry of such period of fourteen days, or shall fail at any time in the course of that period to produce such articles to the chief constable, or to any constable acting under him, when required so to do, shall for each offence, upon conviction before a magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds; and every broker shall add columns to his books in which entries shall be made showing to whom the several articles were sold or delivered, giving full name and full address and date of sale, and every broker failing so to do shall for each offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty shillings.

436. Brokers to produce articles and books on demand.-Every broker shall, at all reasonable times, exhibit and produce, on demand, to the chief constable, or to any constable acting under him, all articles in his possession, or which he may have received or purchased, and shall also produce his books in which the description of any such articles is or should have been entered, when required, in the police court, or to the chief constable, or any constable acting under him, and having the general or special authority of a magistrate, in which book the constable requiring and obtaining production thereof shall on every occasion subscribe his name immediately following the last entry therein; and as often as it shall be found that any goods or articles which have been stolen, embezzled, or fraudulently obtained are in the possession of any broker, he is hereby required, on being informed by the chief constable or other constable authorised as aforesaid that such goods or articles were stolen, embezzled, or fraudulently obtained, to deposit the same with the chief constable, in order that they may be produced in such manner as may be necessary for the ends of justice, or upon proof of ownership, to the satisfaction of the magistrate, restored to the proper owner thereof; and every broker who shall refuse to produce and show the goods or articles in his possession, or the books in which the same ought to have been described, on being required so to do, or who shall refuse to allow the chief constable or constable requiring the said books to subscribe his name therein, or who shall not deposit any such goods or articles stolen, embezzled, or fraudulently obtained as aforesaid, shall, upon conviction before a magistrate, for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds, without prejudice to such broker being also proceeded against as a receiver or resetter of stolen goods according to law.

437. Pawnbroker to produce his book on demand.-Every pawnbroker shall at all times during his hours of business produce on demand to the chief constable, or to any constable acting under him, his books in which the articles received by him in pledge are entered, and shall exhibit to such chief constable or constable all goods regarding which information shall have been given tending to show or to render probable that the same have been stolen, embezzled, or fraudulently taken, and if required shall deposit the same with the chief constable for the ends of public justice, on receiving a receipt for such goods; and any pawnbroker who shall refuse to produce his books, or to exhibit and, if required, to deposit any goods as aforesaid, shall for every offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

438. Brokers, &c., to report stolen goods, under a penalty for neglect. If any goods or articles regarding which written or printed information shall be given by any constable to any pawnbroker or broker as having been stolen, embezzled, or fraudulently obtained, shall then be or thereafter come into the possession of such pawnbroker or broker, such pawnbroker or broker shall, without unnecessary delay, give information at the nearest police station, or to any police officer, if that should be the 'speediest mode of communicating that certain goods or articles answering the description of the said goods or articles were offered to him or are in his possession, and shall also state the name and address given by the person

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