18. Period for and conditions of redemption

Subject to this Act every pawnbroker at any time within six months from the pawning of any article to him or within such longer period as may have been agreed upon by him with the pawner shall deliver up the pledge to any person who may present the pawn-ticket issued by him in respect thereof and may tender payment of the sum borrowed thereon, and shall give to that person a receipt for all such moneys received from that person and shall record the particulars of that person in the pawnbroker’s book.

Any person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence.