Marine Stores.

11. THE fee of One pound shall be paid for every dealer's license.

12. EVERY application for permission to transfer a dealer's license shall be made by the proposed transferee.

Fee for dealer's license.

Proposed transferee to be applicant.

Indorsement of

13. WHEN the transfer of a dealer's license to any person or premises is permitted, the fact and date of such permission, and the transfer. name and description of the person to whom or description of the premises to which the license is permitted to be transferred, shall be indorsed upon such license.

Name, etc., to be

of premises.

(1.) Cause to be painted and kept painted his name in full, painted on outside
and the words "licensed dealer in marine stores," upon
some conspicuous part of the outside of the premises in
respect of which his license is granted; or

(2.) Keep every part of his business premises closed during
the whole of every Sunday and public holiday, and Premises to be
closed during
between the hours of six o'clock in the afternoon of certain hours.
every day, except Saturday and Sunday, and eight o'clock
on the following morning, and from two o'clock in the
afternoon of every Saturday until eight o'clock on the
following Monday morning; or

Entry to be made

(3.) Enter in a book, in the form in the Fourth Schedule, the name of every person to whom he shall lend or on letting truck. let on hire, whether gratuitously or otherwise, any truck, and the date when and the period for which such truck shall be lent or let on hire, and the amount (if any) charged for such lending or hire; or

received.

(4.) Keep a book in the form set forth in the Fifth Schedule, and enter therein an account of all such showing marine Book to be kept marine stores as he may from time to time become stores purchased or 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

(5.) Keep a book in the form set forth in the Sixth Schedule, Book to be kept and enter therein an account of all such marine stores showing marine as he may from time to time sell or dispose of, stating, stores sold or disin respect of each article, the day upon which and the posed of.

name of the person by or through whom, and the

person to whom, he sold or disposed of the same, adding

a

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 license.

Trucks to be lent to licensed collectors

only.

Marine stores not to be purchased from persons under sixteen.

Restriction on

purchase or receipt of marine stores.

Marine Stores.

a true description, if known to him, of the business and place of abode of such last-mentioned person; or (6.) Produce to any police officer, whenever thereto requested, the books required to be kept by him, and any marine stores purchased or received by him then in his possession; or

(7.) 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 or fraudulently obtained in any written or printed information given to him by any police officer; or

(8.) 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.

15. IF any licensed dealer shall

(1.) Carry on the business of a dealer upon any other premises
than those to which his license applies; or

(2.) At any time, upon demand made to him by any Justice
of the Peace or police officer, refuse or fail to produce
and show to such Justice of the Peace or police officer
his license in force at the time of such demand; or
(3.) Lend or let on hire any truck to any person other than a
licensed collector; or

(4.) Charge for the use or hire of any truck any sum exceeding
the maximum amount prescribed; or

(5.) By himself, or any other person on his behalf, purchase or receive any marine stores from any person apparently under the age of sixteen years; or

(6.) 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

(7.) 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.

PART

Marine Stores.

PART III-MISCELLANEOUS.

16. EVERY person ceases to be licensed on the expiration, revocation, or forfeiture of his license.

Ceasing to be licensed.

17. EVERY license issued under this Act, unless sooner revoked or forfeited, shall be in force from the day following the date Expiration of thereof until the thirty-first day of December then next following.

18. NO person shall hold both a collector's and a dealer's license.

license.

No person to hold both a collector's and dealer's license.

person is un

19. IN any prosecution under this Act any allegation in any information that any person is unlicensed need not be proved, and presumption that such person shall be deemed to be unlicensed until the contrary be licensed. proved by the production of a license or otherwise.

Presumption of

20. MARINE stores shall be deemed to be in the possession of a dealer when they are placed in any house, outhouse, yard, garden, marine stores. 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.

21. EVERY entry in any book kept or belonging to any Entries in dealer's dealer, or found on his licensed premises, shall be deemed, unless the books deemed made contrary be shown, to have been made by or with the authority of by him.

such dealer.

Licenses may be

22. ANY two Justices of the Peace may, on the complaint of any person that any licensed person has been guilty of any breach revoked. or non-observance 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 license, revoke such license.

23. THE clerk of any Court at which any license is granted, Register to be kept. permitted to be transferred, or revoked, shall enter particulars of the Register to be kept. 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, etc., to

24. ANY police officer may, at any time by day or night, demand entrance into the place of business of any dealer, and inspect visit dealers' the marine stores and books therein, and may record in the books premises. the day and hour of his visit, and write his initials or name opposite the entry relating to any article examined by him.

If admittance is refused or delayed for such time as to make it appear that wilful delay was intended, the offender shall be guilty

of

Suspicious offering of marine stores.

Penalty.

Hearing of complaints and informations.

Regulations.

Marine Stores.

of an offence against this Act, and shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Fifty pounds.

25. (1.) IF any person offers to any dealer, by way of sale or exchange, any marine stores, and—

(a.) Refuses or is unable to give a satisfactory account of himself or of the means by which he became possessed of such stores; or

(b.) Wilfully gives any false information to the dealer or to

his servant or agent; or

(r.) There is any other reason to suspect that such marine stores are stolen or otherwise illegally or clandestinely obtained,

detain such person, and the dealer or his servant or agent may detain such deliver him into the custody of a police officer, who shall convey him before a Justice of the Peace.

(2.) If the Justice, upon examination and inquiry, shall have cause to suspect that the stores were stolen or illegally or clandestinely obtained, he may commit such person into custody for such time, not exceeding eight clear days, as the Justice may think necessary, for further inquiries.

(3.) On the day to which the examination is adjourned. if such person is charged with no other offence, and it appears to the satisfaction of any two Justices that any of the marine stores so offered were illegally or clandestinely obtained, such person may be summarily convicted of an offence against this Act.

26. ANY person guilty of an offence against this Act shall, when no other penalty is provided, be liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding Ten pounds, or to imprisonment with or without hard labour not exceeding six months.

27. ALL complaints and informations for offences and all proceedings for the forfeiture or revocation of any license under this Act shall, except where otherwise provided, be heard and determined in a summary way before any two Justices of the Peace in Petty

Sessions.

28. THE Governor may make regulations for prescribing-
(1.) The form, manner, and place of registration of licenses,
renewals, revocations, and other matters requiring regis-
tration under this Act, where not specially provided for
in this Act:

(2.) Means for circulating throughout the State lists of
licenses and revocations, and forfeitures thereof:

(3.)

Marine Stores.

(3.) The badges to be used or worn by collectors, and the
position and manner in which the same shall be worn:
(4.) The mode by which collectors shall make known their
approach, whether by bell or otherwise:

(5.) All such observances as may not be specifically provided
for in this Act, and which the Governor considers it
desirable that collectors should comply with in carrying
on their business:

(6.) The manner in which any truck used by any collector shall be painted or otherwise distinguished, and the mode of painting or otherwise marking the name and address of the owner, whether a collector or dealer, upon such truck, and of numbering and marking the number upon any truck:

(7.) The manner and situation in which the names of dealers shall be painted upon the premises upon which they are licensed to carry on their business as dealers:

And generally for carrying into effect the provisions of this Act.

In the name and on behalf of the King I hereby assent

to this Act.

E. A. STONE, Administrator.

SCHEDULES.