9 Penalty on dealer, &c. found in possession of stores, and not accounting for them.
If stores are found in the possession or keeping of a person being in Her Majesty’s service, or in the service of a public department, or being a dealer in marine stores or in old metals, or a pawnbroker (within the meaning of any enactments for the time being in force relating to such dealers or to pawnbrokers), and he is taken or summoned before a court of summary jurisdiction, and the court sees reasonable grounds for believing the stores found to be or to have been Her Majesty’s property, then if such person does not satisfy the court that he came lawfully by the stores so found, he shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.
S. 9 repealed (E.W.S.) by Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45), s. 65(10), Sch. 13
Words repealed (prosp.) by Consumer Credit Act 1974 (c. 39), s. 192(4), Sch. 5