|
|
Register to be kept by holder of game dealers' licence.
|
25.—(1) It shall be the duty of every holder of a game dealer's licence to keep or cause to be kept in every of the premises specified in such licence a register in the prescribed form of all purchases and receipts of game at or for sale on such premises and of all sales, disposals, and removals of game made on or from such premises and within six hours after any such purchase or receipt and within three hours after any such sale, disposal, or removal to enter in such register the prescribed particulars of such purchase, receipt, sale, disposal, or removal (as the case may be) and of the person from whom the same was purchased or received or to whom the same was sold or disposed of or the place to which the same was removed (as the case may require).
|
|
| |
(2) The prescribed particulars referred to in the foregoing sub-section shall not include the price paid by the holder of the licence or renewal for any game purchased, received or sold by him but shall include, in the case of game purchased or received from a person who is the holder of a firearm certificate the excise duty in respect of which is two pounds and is not the holder of a game dealer's licence, the number of such firearm certificate.
|
|
| |
(3) Every register kept in pursuance of this section may at any time during which the premises to which the register relates are open for the carrying on of business be inspected by any person authorised in that behalf by the Minister or by any member of the Gárda Síochána, and it shall be the duty of the holder of the game dealer's licence in respect of such premises and of every person keeping such register to produce for the inspection of such authorised person or member as aforesaid on demand such register and also all invoices, consignment notes, receipts, or other documents (including copies thereof where the originals are not available) reasonably demanded by such person or member for the purpose of verifying any entry in or explaining any omission from such register.
|
|
| |
(4) If any holder of a game dealer's licence—
|
|
| |
(a) fails to keep or cause to be kept such register as is required by this section, or
|
|
| |
(b) fails to make or cause to be made in such register within the time hereinbefore mentioned any entry required by this section to be made therein, or
|
|
| |
(c) fails to produce or cause to be produced on the demand of any person entitled under this section to inspect the same, any register, document, or copy of a document which he is required by this section so to produce, or obstructs any person entitled under this section to inspect any register, document, or copy of a document in the making of such inspection, or
|
|
| |
(d) wilfully or negligently makes or causes to be made in such register any entry which is false or misleading in any material particular,
|
|
| |
he shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof, in the case of a first offence, to a fine not exceeding ten pounds and, in the case of a second or any subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding twenty-five pounds.
|
|
| |
(5) For the purposes of this section—
|
|
| |
(a) inspection of a register or document shall include taking copies thereof or extracts therefrom, and
|
|
| |
(b) a demand for inspection of a register or other document shall be deemed to have been duly made to the holder of a game dealer's licence if such demand is made verbally on the premises to which such licence relates to a person in the employment of such licence holder, and
|
|
| |
(c) a refusal or failure to produce a register or other document for inspection if made or committed on premises to which, a game dealer's licence relates by a person in the employment of the holder of such licence shall be deemed to have been made or committed by such licence holder.
|
