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GENERAL DEALERS (IRELAND) ACT 1903 - SECT 5

General dealers to produce articles and books on demand.

5.(1) Every general dealer shall at all reasonable times produce on demand to
any police constable, having the general or special authority of a justice of
the peace to make the demand, all articles in his possession and also the book
in which the description of any article is or ought to have been entered.

(2) Any police constable obtaining the production of any such book shall on
each occasion subscribe his name immediately after the last entry therein.

(3) Whenever any articles which have been stolen, embezzled or fraudulently
obtained are found in the possession of any general dealer, he shall, on being
informed by a police constable, authorised as aforesaid, that such articles
were stolen, embezzled or fraudulently obtained, deposit the same with the
constable.

(4) If any general dealer fails to comply with any requirement of this
section, he shall be liable for each offence, on summary conviction, to a fine
not exceeding [#50] without prejudice to his being also proceeded against
according to law as a receiver of stolen goods.


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