Section 30

If any pawnbroker or any dealer in second-hand goods or any worker in platinum, gold or silver or any dealer in platinum, gold or silver articles, within ten days of receipt of any goods or any such metal or articles, or after receiving information from a police officer that any specified goods, metal or articles have been stolen or fraudulently obtained, melts, alters or defaces or parts with or otherwise puts away the same, or causes the same to be melted, altered or defaced or parted with or otherwise put away without the previous permission of the Chief Police Officer, and it is proved that such goods, metal or articles were stolen or fraudulently obtained, such pawnbroker, second-hand dealer, worker or dealer shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both:

Provided that, if the value of such goods, metal or articles does not exceed three hundred ringgit this subsection shall have effect as if for the words “ten days” there were substituted the expression

“three days (excluding any weekly holiday)”.

Where any goods or articles, to which subsection (1) of this section apply, are ordinarily sold or intended to be used together in pairs or sets, then the value of such goods or articles shall, for the purpose of the said subsection, be the value of such pairs or sets of such goods or articles.

The provisions of this section shall not apply to any pawnbroker or any dealer in second-hand goods or any worker in platinum, gold or silver or any dealer in platinum, gold or silver articles who receives any such goods or metal or articles from another pawnbroker, second-hand dealer, worker or dealer, if such goods, metals or articles have been retained by such lastmentioned pawnbroker, second-hand dealer, worker or dealer for at least the period specified in subsection (1) of this section and appropriate to such goods, metal or articles.

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Minor Offences

GENERAL