Odger's English Common Law

METAL DEALERS, &C. 385
Various subsidiary statutes have from time to time been
passed dealing with special classes of persons, who are often
asked to receive stolen property. Thus dealers in old metal
are forbidden to purchase anything before 9 a.m. or after
6 p.m. They are also prohibited from dealing with persons
" apparently under the age of sixteen years." * Any
justice of the peace has power, upon a sworn complaint that
there is reason to believe that old metal unlawfully obtained is
stored at a certain marine store, to authorise a search of the
premises and the seizure of any such metal found therein. 2
Marine store dealers are forbidden to cut up any cable or
other similar article exceeding five fathoms in length. 3
Every pawnbroker is required yearly to take out a licence,
and if a pawnbroker is convicted on indictment of receiving
stolen goods knowing them to be stolen, the Court may direct
that his licence shall cease to have effect. 4 He is now
prohibited from dealing with '
' any person apparently under
the age of fourteen years." 5
1 The Old Metal Dealers Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict, c. 110), a. 8 (2) ; and see 8
Edw. VII. c. 67, 6. 116(1).
2 lb. s. 4.
s Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), s. 541.
* The Pawnbrokers Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 93), ss. 37, 38.
o The Children Act, 1908 (8 Edw. VII. c. 67), s. 117.
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