Proclamation re commencement (2004-804) (NSW)

2004 No 804

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 31 March 2005 as the day on which the following provisions of that Act commence:

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

Signed and sealed at Sydney, this 8th day of December 2004.

By Her Excellency’s Command,

REBA PAIGE MEAGHER, M.P.,
Minister for Fair Trading

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Published in Gazette No 198 of 10 December 2004, page 8964	Page 1
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Proclamation Explanatory note
Explanatory note

The object of this Proclamation is to commence the remaining amendments to the Pawnbrokers and Second-hand Dealers Act 1996 made by the Pawnbrokers and Second-hand Dealers Amendment Act 2002. The amendments that are being commenced concern the retention of goods, pawnbrokers’ 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to the Pawnbrokers and Second-hand Dealers Regulation 1997 are not being commenced as that Regulation has been repealed.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