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! TABLE OF CONTENTS. SECTIONS. I 1 Short title, extent and commence- I ment. I 2 Definitiotls. Pawn broker to obtain licence annually. - Grant and refi~sal of licences. Pawnbrokers to exhibit their name over shops, etc. lntcrest and charges allowed to pawnbrokers. 7 Pawn-ticket to be give11 to pawner. Conditions relating to redemp- tion of pledge. - ! Pilwnbrokers to keep books, give receipts, ctc. Pawnbroker to keep pledge i 11 his shop or placc of business. I0.B Appointment of lnspectors and thcir powcrs. 11 Redemption of pledge. Salc of plcdgc and inspcctioil of sale book. 12-A Interest not to accrue in respect of certain loans and pledges not to be disposcd of during the period of operation of the Tamil Nadu Tndebtcd Persons (Tcmpo* rary Rclicf) Act, 1975. \ i I Ply- . -2;w:@bLr * C SECTIO~S. 13 Liability of pawnbroker in case v f fire. 14 Compensation for depreciation OJ pledge. 14-A Power to cancel licences, etc. 14-B Publication of ordcr of cancella- tion. 14-C So co~np~nhation for cui~ccllution of licence. 14-1) Auctio~~eers to maintain certain registers. 15 Pawnbroker advancing snia Ilc.1 amount or receiving higlzc~ i rltcrest than that speci ficd i n accouuts to be punishable. 16 Ce~tair~ othcr acts of pawnbroker3 to be punishable. 17 Certain act5 of p:lwr~ers to !>c I3LLll h h b l c . 1 X Geiicrnl pcnaltj, Iibt. C O I ~ ~ I ' ~ V L ' I ~ . troll uT Act, clc. 19 Jurisdiction to Iry olfellccs. 20 [ Onzittr~cl. I 2 1 Contracts not to bc void on ~ I C C O L L I I ~ o f oft"encus b~tt intcrc4 alitl cost\ not to hu ; ~ l l r ~ c t l ill ccl tail1 cases. 2 1 -A I'OWCI. to cxc~tlpt colnp.111 t'k r'i*g!\- t c ~ d beforc 1st Notc'~llbct 194 t 22 Power to make rulca. 23 Amendment of Tanlii Nsdu ,421 I Vll of 1935. 24 Arnc~dni~nt of T:!rnil Nildl1 Act 111 of 1888. 25 S~vings. 1943: T.N. Act XXllI] Pawnbrokers . 897 '[TAMIL NADU] ACT No. XXlII OF 19432, AS AMENJ3ED BY MADRAS ACT No. XXVI , OF 1945*. (Received the assent OJ the Governor-General on the 1 6th Vovember 1943 ; &st published in the Fort St. George Gazette on the 23rd November 1943.) i i An Act to regulate and control the business of Pawnbrokers in the a[Stste of Tamil Nadu]. I WHEREAS it is expedien&o make provision for the regulation and control of the business of pawnbrokers in the a[State of Tamil Nadu]; '[It is hereby enacted as follows :-I