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PAWNBROKERS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1954 - SECT 22

Protection of owners and pawners not having pawn-tickets.

22.(1) Any person

(a)claiming to be the owner of a pledge but not holding the pawn-ticket; or

(b)claiming to be entitled to hold a pawn-ticket but alleging that it has been
lost, mislaid, destroyed or stolen, or taken from him by fraud;

(2) When and so soon as a person within three days from the delivery to him of
a form under sub-section (1) delivers to the pawnbroker the appropriate
declaration duly made by him and by a person identifying him before a resident
magistrate or justice of the peace or commissioner for oaths, the first
mentioned person shall as between himself and the pawnbroker have the same
rights and remedies as if he had produced the pawn-ticket.

(3) A pawnbroker who has delivered a form to any person in accordance with
sub-section (1) is hereby indemnified

(a)for refusing to deliver the pledge to any other person until after the
expiration of the three days referred to in sub-section (2);

(b)unless he has actual or constructive notice that a declaration under
sub-section (2) is false in any material particular, for delivering up the
pledge or otherwise acting in conformity with the declaration.


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