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Chapter:

166 PDFTitle:PAWNBROKERS ORDINANCEGazette Number:71 of 1999
Section:10Heading:Appeal and operation and effect of cancellationVersion Date:01/07/1997

Remarks:

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 71 of 1999 s. 3

(1) Any person aggrieved by a decision of the Commissioner under section 5, 6 or 9 may appeal by way of petition to the Chief Executive within 28 days of the decision and on any such appeal the Chief Executive may confirm, vary or reverse the decision of the Commissioner.
(2) The operation of any decision to cancel a licence under section 9, appealed against under subsection (1), shall be suspended until the appeal has been heard and determined by the Chief Executive.
(3) The cancellation of a licence shall not affect any agreement for the loan of a sum of money on the security of any goods pawned or other like agreement made by the pawnbroker as such, nor shall he by reason only of the cancellation lose his lien on, or right to, any goods or goods pawned or to the loan and profit thereon, but he shall be allowed to pursue and wind up his business in respect of goods which he has received before the cancellation.

(Amended 71 of 1999 s. 3)