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Section 18: General penalty for contravention of Act, etc

The Puducherry Pawnbrokers Act, 1966Union territory Act of Puducherry · Act 11 of 1966

(1) whoever contravenes any of the provisions of this Act or of any rule or of any terms or conditions of a licence made or granted thereunder shall, if no other penalty is elsewhere provided in this Act for such contravention, be punished with fine which may extend to fifty rupees and, if such person has been previously convicted whether under this section or any other provision contained in this Act, with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees.

(2) Any person who after having been convicted of the offence of carrying on, or continuing to carry on, the business of pawnbroker in contravention of the provisions of section 3, continues to commit the same offence in the same year, shall in addition to the fine to which he is liable under sub-section (1), be punished with a further fine which may extend to ten rupees for each day after the previous date of conviction during which he continues so to offend.

(3) Any Court convicting a pawnbroker of a contravention of the provisions of clause (c) or clause (d) or sub-section (1) of section 10 may direct him to furnish a receipt of statement of account in accordance with the provisions of that clause, and if the pawnbroker fails to comply with the direction, the Court may order his licence as a pawnbroker to be cancelled.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Puducherry Pawnbrokers Act, 1966
Section18
Marginal noteGeneral penalty for contravention of Act, etc
JurisdictionUnion territory of Puducherry
StatusIn force as published by the source

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