Auctioneers and House Agents Act, 1947
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Production of auctioneers' licences and auction permits to officers of customs and excise. |
19.—(1) Every person conducting an auction (other than an auction to which subsection (2) of section 6 of this Act relates) shall, if so requested by an officer of customs and excise, produce and show to the officer, there and then, an auctioneer's licence or auction permit under which he was authorised to conduct the auction, or within the next seven days, produce and show such a licence or permit to any officer of customs and excise at a customs and excise office to be named by such person at the time when the said request is made. | |
(2) Every person who contravenes subsection (1) of this section shall, unless he satisfies the Court that he was authorised to conduct the auction and that the contravention was due to circumstances beyond his control, be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction to an excise penalty of fifty pounds. |