PAWNBROKERS (DIVISIONAL AUCTIONEERS) ACT, 1943

AN ACT TO REPEAL SO MUCH OF THE PRE-UNION IRISH STATUTE PASSED IN THE YEAR 1788 AND NUMBERED CHAPTER 49 AS REQUIRES EACH OF THE FOUR DIVISIONAL AUCTIONEERS NAMED THEREIN OR APPOINTED THEREUNDER TO HAVE HIS PUBLIC SALE ROOM, AND TO SELL PAWNBROKERS' FORFEITED PLEDGES, IN HIS OWN DIVISION ONLY. [20th April, 1943.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—

1 Definitions.

1.—In this Act—

the expression “the Act of 1788” means the pre-Union Irish statute passed in the year 1788 and numbered chapter 49;

the expression “divisional auctioneer” means a person entitled to sell or dispose of forfeited pawns or pledges for pawnbrokers by virtue of his holding the office of sword-bearer of the City of Dublin or the office of marshal of that City or by virtue of appointment under section 9 of the Act of 1788;

the word “division” means any such divisional district or ward of the City of Dublin as is referred to in sections 9 and 10 of the Act of 1788;

references to the division of a divisional auctioneer shall be construed as referring to the division assigned to such auctioneer by, or for which he is appointed under, the Act of 1788.

2 Partial repeal of sections 9 and 10 of the Act of 1788.

2.—So much of sections 9 and 10 of the Act of 1788 as—

• (a) requires that the public sale room of a divisional auctioneer shall be situate in his division, or

• (b) prohibits a divisional auctioneer from selling or disposing of forfeited pawns or pledges for pawnbrokers, or causing the same to be sold, in any division other than his own division,

is hereby repealed, to the intent that it shall be lawful for a divisional auctioneer to have his public sale room in any division and to sell or dispose of forfeited pawns or pledges for pawnbrokers, or to cause the same to be sold, in any division.

3 Short title.

3.—This Act may be cited as the Pawnbrokers (Divisional Auctioneers) Act, 1943.