Pawnbrokers and Second-hand Dealers Act 1996
17Production of records
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17 Production of records
17 Production of records
(1) An authorised officer who has lawfully entered any premises where a licensed business is being carried on may require any person apparently in charge of the premises to do immediately any of the following—
(a) to produce for inspection any record required to be kept by the licensee under this Act,
(b) to identify and locate records kept by the licensee that correspond to particular goods kept by the licensee,
(c) to identify and locate goods kept by the licensee that correspond to particular records kept by the licensee,
(d) to reveal the whereabouts of any goods or records referred to in paragraph (b) or (c),
(e) to produce the licence.
(2) An authorised officer may require a person carrying on a licensed business from a market stall or other place occupied intermittently for the purposes of a licensed business to do any of the following—
(a) to produce for inspection at the nearest police station within 24 hours any record required to be kept by the licensee under this Act,
(b) to identify, locate and produce for inspection at the nearest police station within 24 hours any records kept by the licensee that correspond to particular goods kept by the licensee,
(c) to identify, locate and produce for inspection at the nearest police station within 24 hours any goods kept by the licensee that correspond to particular records kept by the licensee,
(d) to reveal immediately the whereabouts of any goods or records referred to in paragraph (b) or (c),
(e) to produce the licence for inspection at the nearest police station within 24 hours.
(3) An authorised officer may require the promoter of a market—
(a) to produce for inspection at the nearest police station within 24 hours any record required to be kept by the promoter under this Act, or
(b) to reveal the whereabouts of any such records.
(4) An authorised officer who is not a police officer may, instead of requiring under this section that any goods or records be produced at a police station, require—