Proclamation re commencement (2003-793) (NSW)

2003 No 793

New South Wales

Proclamation

under the

Pawnbrokers and Second-hand Dealers Amendment Act 2002

No 104

MARIE BASHIR, Governor

I, Professor Marie Bashir AC, Governor of the State of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of section 2 of the Pawnbrokers and Second-hand Dealers Amendment Act 2002, do, by this my Proclamation, appoint 15 December 2003 as the day on which that Act, other than the following provisions, commences:

(a)	section 4,
(b)	Schedule 1 [15], [18], [22] and [26],
(c)	Schedule 1 [27] to the extent that it omits section 30 of the Pawnbrokers and Second-hand Dealers Act 1996 and inserts a new section 30,
(d)	Schedule 1 [28] to the extent that it inserts section 31A into the Pawnbrokers and Second-hand Dealers Act 1996,
(e)	Schedule 1 [29] to the extent that it inserts section 32A (1), (3) and (5) into the Pawnbrokers and Second-hand Dealers Act 1996,
(f)	Schedule 1 [30],
(g)	Schedule 2.

Signed and sealed at Sydney, this 29th day of October 2003.

Published in Gazette No 174 of 31 October 2003, page 10263	Page 1
2003 No 793
2003 No 793
Proclamation
Explanatory note

By Her Excellency’s Command,

REBA PAIGE MEAGHER, M.P.,

Minister for Fair Trading

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Explanatory note

The object of this Proclamation is to commence most of the amendments made to the Pawnbrokers and Second-hand Dealers Act 1996 by the Pawnbrokers and Second-hand Dealers Amendment Act 2002. The amendments that are being commenced concern the application and operation of the Pawnbrokers and Second-hand Dealers Act 1996, the licensing of pawnbrokers and second-hand dealers, the regulation of the business of pawnbroking and second-hand dealing and the regulation of markets. The amendments that are not being commenced concern the retention of goods, pawnbroker’s records of pledges, agreements to extend redemption periods, variation of pawn agreements, the simultaneous discharge of pawn agreements and re-pawning of goods, the sale of unredeemed goods, notices as to proceeds of sale, interest charges able to be debited under a pawn agreement and the implications of the sale or transfer of a business. The amendments to the Pawnbrokers and Second-hand Dealers Regulation 1997 are not being commenced as that Regulation has been repealed.

BY AUTHORITY