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L.R.O. 1/2012
LAWS OF GUYANA
MISCELLANEOUS LICENCES ACT
CHAPTER 80:04
Act
2 of 1861
Amended by
26 of 1862
7 of 1875
8 of 1880
5 of 1885
2 of 1899
7 of 1923
17 of 1928 39 of 1929 28 of 1931 23 of 1932
4 of 1934 28 of 1936 36 of 1940
8 of 1958
4 of 1972
(inclusive) by L.R.O.
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CHAPTER 80:04
MISCELLANEOUS LICENCES ACT
SECTION
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
1. Short title.
2. Interpretation.
3. Application of Act.
ISSUE OF LICENCES
9. Certificate required in case of licence required for public entertainment.
10. Not taking out licence when required.
11. Power to adjudicate in cases where the unpaid duty or
instalment does not exceed $50.
12. Acting without licence.
TRANSFER OF LICENCES
13. Transfer of licence on certain conditions.
14. Transferee of licence liable for payment of instalments falling due
subsequent to the transfer.
15. Transfer of licence to other premises, etc.
16. Register of transfers.
17. Use of or trading under another’s licence prohibited.
MARKING OF LICENSED VEHICLES, CRAFT AND PREMISES

4. Licences to be in conformity with Tax Act.
5. Prohibition of concurrent licences.
6. Copy of lost licence.
7. Proof of issue of licence.
8. Keeping and publication of lists of licences.
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18. Painting of name and number on carriage or cart kept for hire.
19. Painting of certain particulars on cart not kept for hire.
20. Painting of number on local craft.
21. Liability to seizure of carriage, cart, or craft not marked.
22. Affixing of notice-board by person licensed to sell wine and malt
liquor to be drunk on the premises, or to keep a butcher’s shop
in rural districts.
BUTCHERS’ NOTICE AND RETURNS
23. (1) Notice to police by butcher in rural districts of intention to
slaughter.
(2) Penalty for non-production of animal or its skin.
24. Weekly return of animals slaughtered.
25. Posting up weekly return in district police station.
POWERS OF OFFICERS
26. Demand for production of trade, gun or local craft licence.
27. Non-production of licence when required.
28. Entry on premises and inspecting vehicle or animal kept for hire.
29. Assaulting district commissioner in execution of duty.
PROCEDURE
30. Onus of proof in certain proceedings.
31. Onus of proof as to animal or thing found on premises.
32. Application of certain enactments to holders of licences, and their
attorneys.
33. Liability of person found on licensed premises during period when
business cannot be lawfully transacted or they should be closed.
34. Sale of articles ordered to be sold under this Act.
35. Recovery of fines, penalties and forfeitures.
36. Power to the Minister to order delivery up of article seized.
37. Police officer or constable not aiding in execution of this Act.
38. Procedure.
39. Power to make regulations.
SECTION
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__________________________
1929 Ed.
c. 108
1953 Ed.
c. 306 _______________________________________________________
2 of 1861
[17TH JULY, 1861]
Short title
Interpretation.
1. This Act may be cited as the Miscellaneous Licences
Act.
2. In this Act—

“district commissioner” includes any assistant commissioner
of a district, any public officer appointed to the staff
of any administrative or mining district office who is
authorised in writing by the Minister to perform any of
the functions and duties conferred on district
commissioners by this Act and any revenue officer of
rivers, creeks, State lands, and forests, who is hereby
invested with all and singular the jurisdiction, power,
and authority of a district commissioner under this Act;
“goods, wares or merchandise” includes charcoal,
provisions, or refreshments, or anything, other than
wine, malt liquor, or spirituous liquor, for the sale of
which a licence is or may be required by law;
“firearm” extends and applies to any fowling-piece, rifle, or
other gun, or to any pistol;
“local craft” extends and applies to any local schooner, sloop,
vessel, boat, bateau, punt, corial, or craft.
Licences other than for the sale of Spirituous Liquors.
AN ACT to consolidate and amend the laws relating to
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Application of
Act.

Licences to be
in conformity
with Tax Act.
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Prohibition of
concurrent
licences.
Copy of lost
licence.
[4 of 1985
13 of 1989
11 of 1993
2 of 1996]

Proof of issue
of licence.

Keeping and
publication of
lists of licences.
3. This Act shall not apply to licences for the sale of
wine, malt liquor, or spirituous liquor.
ISSUE OF LICENCES
by virtue of any Act for the raising of taxes shall be in
conformity with the Tax Act under which it is issued.
has expired no second licence in respect of the same business
or trade shall be issued.
commissioner, that any licence has been lost, he may
authorise the issue of a copy thereof and of the transfers
endorsed thereon on payment of a fee of two hundred dollars,
and the fee shall be paid to the Accountant General.
of any description has been issued to a person may be
established by the production—
(a) of an extract, certified by the district
commissioner from the books of his
office, of the entry recording the issue
of the licence; and
(b) of proof that that person and the
person named in the entry are one
and the same.
year shall every year be kept by the district commissioner and
shall be published from time to time as and when directed by
the Minister.
4. Every licence required to be taken out under or
5. Until the term for which the licence is taken out
6. On proof, to the satisfaction of the district
7. In any proceeding in a court, the fact that a licence
8. Lists of all licences issued under the Tax Act of the
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Certificate
required in case
of licence
required for
public
entertainment.
Not taking out
licence when
required.
[8 of 1958]
9. No licence shall be granted to anyone to give, have,
or hold, or to permit or allow to be given, had, or held, any
ball, dance, concert, theatrical, or other public entertainment
for money or reward, or by subscription, unless he produces a
certificate from the Commissioner of Police or a
superintendent of police, if in Georgetown, or from a justice
of the peace, superintendent of police, or officer in charge of a
police station, if in New Amsterdam or in any part of the
rural districts, to the effect that he is a fit and proper person to
obtain the licence.
10. (1) Everyone who fails or neglects, without lawful
excuse, to take out any licence required to be taken out by
him under the provisions of any Act for the raising of taxes,
or who fails to pay any instalment due in respect of any
licence issued to him under those provisions, shall be liable to
a fine of not less than six dollars and not more than one
hundred and fifty dollars, and shall in addition, with all costs,
if he has not at the time of conviction taken out a licence, pay
the sum following, that is to say—
(a) where the licence is one that can be
obtained for the whole of the financial
year, the sum required by the said Act
to be paid for the licence for the whole
year; or
(b) where the licence is one that is issued
for a particular act or occasion, the
sum required by the said Act to be
paid for that licence;
and, if he has at the time of conviction taken out a licence but
is in default of payment of the second instalment, he shall in
addition, with all costs, pay the amount due in respect of that
instalment.
(2) The said sums shall be deemed to be and shall
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Power to
adjudicate in
cases where the
unpaid duty or
instalment
does not does not exceed $50.
[28 of 1931
8 of 1958
11 of 1983]
Acting without
licence.
be recovered as one penalty.
(3) On payment of the penalty as aforesaid, with
all costs, if the licence is one that can be granted for a whole
year and there is any portion of the financial year for which
the licence was required then unexpired at the time of the
conviction, a licence shall be issued to the person convicted
for that unexpired portion.
(4) The whole amount paid by the person
convicted in respect of the sum payable for the licence
shall be paid to the district commissioner for the public
use, without any deduction.
11. Where a person contravenes section 10 (1) and the
amount of the duty for the licence or of any instalment of the
duty does not exceed two thousand dollars, a district
commissioner may offer to the offender the option of being
prosecuted or of paying to the district commissioner the
amount of the duty or of the instalment and of a fine not
exceeding the amount of the duty or the instalment.
12. Whosoever, in any part of Guyana, does any act—
(a) for which a licence is required but for
which that person is not qualified to
take out a licence; or
(b) for which a licence may not be
granted for that part of Guyana,
though a licence is required elsewhere
in Guyana,
shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of three
hundred dollars and, in addition thereto, to a penalty equal to
the amount of the duty for a licence to do that act.
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Transfer of
licence on
certain
conditions.

Transferee of
licence liable
for payment of
instalments
falling due
subsequent to
the transfer.
[39 of 1929]
TRANSFER OF LICENCES
13. (1) The owner of any licence issued under or by
virtue of the provisions of any Act for the raising of taxes
may, save as hereinafter mentioned, transfer the licence for
the unexpired term thereof, provided the premises, chattel,
or thing which are or is the subject of that licence be
transferred therewith, and the transfer and the date and hour
thereof be endorsed on the licence by the district
commissioner.
(2) The owner of a licence taken out in respect of a
business or trade who wishes to transfer the licence shall
deliver to the district commissioner of the district where the
business or trade is carried on a notice signed by the
transferor and transferee, setting forth in full their forenames
and surnames, their respective addresses, the nature of the
business to which the licence relates, the precise premises and
situation in which the business is carried on, giving the lot,
street, village, town, city, or plantation.
14. Payment by any person of the first instalment of
the duty for any annual licence issued under or by virtue of
the provisions of any Act for the raising of taxes shall be
deemed to be an admission of the obligation of such
person to pay the remaining instalment or instalments:
Provided that—
(a) where a licence and the premises,
chattel or thing which are or is the
subject of the licence are
transferred in pursuance of section 13
the transferor shall not be liable for
any instalment becoming due after
such transfer and the payment of any
such instalment shall be enforceable
against the transferee as if he were the
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Transfer of
licence to
other premises,
etc.
[39 of 1929]
Register of
transfers.
person who had taken out the licence;
(b) where the holder of any licence in
respect of any premises ceases to use
those premises for the purpose for
which they are licensed before a
remaining instalment or remaining
instalments becomes or become due
and another licence of not less value
than the original licence has been
taken out by any other person in
respect of the same premises the
holder of the original licence shall not
be liable for the remaining instalment
or instalments.
15. The holder of any licence issued under or by
virtue of the provisions of any Act for the raising of taxes
shall be at liberty to transfer the same for the unexpired
portion thereof to any other premises, chattel or thing which
are or is liable to a licence of the same or a similar kind,
provided that the transfer and the date and hour thereof are
endorsed on such licence by the district commissioner of the
district and that the holder of such licence pays, at the time of
such transfer, the difference, if any, arising from the fact that
a higher licence duty is payable in respect of the new
premises, chattel or thing, such difference to be computed
from the first day of the quarter of the year in which the
transfer is made.
16. (1) The transfer of every licence made under this
Act shall be liable to the stamp duty imposed by any Tax Act,
and every transfer shall be registered by the district
commissioner in a book to be kept by him for the purpose.
(2) Any extract from the register, certified and
signed by a district commissioner, shall be received in
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Use of or
trading under
another’s
licence
prohibited.
[28 of 1936]
evidence in all courts whatsoever in Guyana, without
production of the register.
(3) The district commissioner shall be entitled to a
fee of twenty-five cents on furnishing the extract, to be paid
by the party applying for it.
17. Anyone who—
(a) lets out, hires, or lends to another any
licence granted or transferred to him;
(b) makes use of, trades, or acts in any
way with, under, or by colour of any
licence granted or transferred to
another, or of any licence in which his
real name is not inserted as the name
of the person to whom it is granted or
transferred,
shall each of them forfeit and pay for each offence a sum of
not less than fifteen dollars and not more than one hundred
and fifty dollars, and each licence shall be forfeited and
become null and void:
Provided that—
(a) anyone bona fide employed by the
owner of a licence may lawfully make
use of, trade, and act with and under
that licence for the exclusive benefit of
the owner; and
(b) in the case of a gun licence, or local
craft licence, the name of the person
so bona fide employed must be
inserted in the licence, or be endorsed
thereon, with the date and hour of
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Painting of
name and
number on
carriage or cart
kept for hire.
[4 of 1972]

Painting of
certain
particulars on
cart not kept for
hire.
endorsement, by a district
commissioner or by a magistrate, in
which last case the magistrate shall,
within seven days thereafter, send
or deliver to the district
commissioner the particulars of the
endorsement.
MARKING OF LICENSED VEHICLES, CRAFT AND
PREMISES
18. (1) Everyone who keeps a carriage or cart for hire
shall have his name and the number of his licence painted in
plain legible letters and figures, in black upon a white ground
or in white upon a black ground, upon some conspicuous
part of the carriage or cart.
(2) Everyone who uses or suffers to be used,
for hire or otherwise, a carriage or cart without the name and
number being so painted thereon as aforesaid shall be liable
for each offence to a fine of one hundred and fifty dollars.
19. (1) Everyone who keeps any cart other than for
hire shall have the word “private” and also, if a licence is
required in respect thereof, his name and the number of his
licence, and if the cart belongs to, and is exclusively used in
the service of, an estate, plantation, or cattle farm, the name
thereof, painted in plain legible letters and figures, in black
upon a white ground or in white upon a black ground, upon
some conspicuous part of the cart.
(2) Everyone who uses the cart or suffers it to be
used without the particulars hereinbefore required in that
behalf being so painted thereon shall be liable for each offence
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Painting of
number on
local craft.

Liability to
seizure of
carriage, cart,
or craft not
marked.
Affixing of
notice-board by
person
licensed to sell
wine and malt
liquor to be
drunk on the
premises, or to
keep a
butcher’s shop
in rural
districts.
20. (1) Everyone who keeps any local craft in
respect whereof a licence is or may be required shall have the
number of the licence painted in plain legible figures upon
the stern or bow of the craft.
(2) Every person who uses the craft or suffers it to
be used without the number being so painted thereon shall be
liable for each offence to a fine of seventy-five dollars.
21. (1) A district commissioner or any police officer or
constable, may seize any carriage or cart (together with any
animal drawing it), or any local craft, in respect whereof a
penalty or forfeiture has accrued under any of the last three
preceding sections, and remove and detain it until the penalty
or forfeiture is paid, together with all costs of removal, and
until the particulars hereinbefore required in that behalf are
duly painted thereon at the owner’s expense.
(2) If the penalty or forfeiture is not paid upon
conviction, together with all the costs of removal, the carriage
or cart (together with any animal drawing it), or craft, as the
case may be, shall be liable and leviable for the amount
thereof with costs and shall be sold by order of the convicting
magistrate; and if the proceeds of the sale are not sufficient for the payment of the penalty or forfeiture with costs the
party convicted shall be liable therefor, and the payment
shall be recovered by distress.
22. (1) Everyone who is licensed to sell wine and malt
liquor to be consumed on the premises, and everyone who is
licensed to keep a butcher’s shop in the rural districts, as the
case may be, shall affix a board in some conspicuous place
outside and over the door and window of his shop, whereon
shall be painted, in plain legible letters, his name and the
words “Licensed to sell wine and malt liquor to be drunk on
the premises,” or “Licensed to sell butcher’s meat,” as the case
may be, and any person who fails to comply with, or acts in
contravention of, the provisions of this subsection shall be
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Notice to police
by butcher in
rural districts
of intention to
slaughter.
Penalty for non-
production of
animal or its
skin.
liable for the first offence to a fine of seventy-five dollars and
for the second or any subsequent offence to a fine of one
hundred and fifty dollars.
(2) The offence of omitting to affix the board shall
be considered and held to be repeated every ten days after
any previous conviction during which it is omitted to be
affixed as aforesaid, and to be a separate offence.
BUTCHERS’ NOTICE AND RETURNS
23. (1) Everyone licensed to keep a butcher’s shop in
the rural districts who intends to slaughter any bull, cow, ox,
steer, heifer, or calf, or any ram, ewe, sheep, or lamb, shall,
after the animal has been brought to his shop or to the place
where it is to be slaughtered, and one day at least previous to
the slaughter, deliver or cause to be delivered to the person in
charge of the police station nearest to his shop a notice in
writing, signed with his name (or, if he is unable to write,
marked with his mark and attested by some credible witness),
of his intention to slaughter that animal, and the notice shall
contain a description of the animal as to sex and colour, and
also as to any brand and peculiar or distinguishing marks by
which it may be known or identified, and the name and place
of residence of the person from whom he has bought or
procured it, and where the animal is slaughtered at some
place other than his shop, he shall also at the same time
deliver or cause to be delivered a like notice to the person in
charge of the police station nearest to that place; and any person who fails to comply with or acts in contravention of
any of the provisions of this subsection shall be liable for each
such offence to a fine of one hundred and fifty dollars.
(2) Everyone aforesaid shall, if so required by any
member of the police force, forthwith produce the animal at
his shop or at the place where it is to be slaughtered, and the
police officer may, if he has reason to suspect that the animal
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Weekly return
of animals
slaughtered.
Posting up
weekly return
in district
police station.
has been stolen, require the person to keep the animal for a
period not exceeding seventy-two hours before killing it, and
anyone refusing or neglecting to produce or keep any animal
when so required shall be liable to a fine of one hundred and
fifty dollars.
(3) Everyone as aforesaid shall be bound to keep
the skin of every animal so slaughtered for not less than three
days after it has been slaughtered and on demand to produce
its skin for the inspection of any member of the police force or
a rural constable; and any person who fails to comply with or
acts in contravention of any of the provisions of this
subsection shall be liable for each such offence to a fine of one
hundred and fifty dollars.
24. Everyone licensed to keep a butcher’s shop in the
rural districts shall be bound to send or deliver to the person
in charge of the police station nearest to his shop a weekly
return, containing all the descriptive particulars specified in
the last preceding section, signed with his name (or, if he is
unable to write, marked with his mark and attested by some
credible witness), of all animals aforesaid which have been
slaughtered by him during the week preceding, and the
return shall be by him sent or delivered to the person in
charge of that police station within three days after the
expiration of each week; and any person who fails to comply
with or acts in contravention of any of the provisions of this
subsection shall be liable for each such offence to a fine of one
hundred and fifty dollars.
25. The person in charge of any police station
aforesaid shall, immediately on receipt of the weekly return,
cause it to be affixed in a conspicuous place in the said police
station for one week after the receipt thereof, and shall
thereafter transmit it to the Commissioner of Police in
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Demand for
production of
trade, gun or
local craft
licence.
[28 of 1936]

Non-
production of
licence when
required.

Entry on
premises and
inspecting
vehicle or
animal kept for
POWERS OF OFFICERS
26. (1) A district commissioner or any police officer or
constable, may demand from anyone exposing for sale any
goods, wares, or merchandise, or carrying or using any fire-
arm, or keeping for hire or using any local craft, his licence
therefor, in any case in which a licence in respect thereof is or
may be required; and if the person does not forthwith
produce the licence or satisfactorily account for its non-
production, the district commissioner, or the police
officer or constable, may seize and detain the goods, wares,
merchandise, fire-arm, or craft, until the licence is produced,
or, if no licence has been taken out, until the penalty or
forfeiture incurred by the person offering for sale the goods,
wares, or merchandise, or carrying or using the fire- arm, or
keeping for hire or using the craft, is paid, together with all
costs of removal.
(2) All goods, wares, merchandise, fire-arm, or craft
aforesaid, as the case may be, shall be liable and leviable for
the amount of the fine or forfeiture with costs and, in default
of payment by the offender upon conviction, shall be sold by
order of the convicting magistrate; and if the proceeds of the
sale are not sufficient for the payment of the penalty or
forfeiture, the party convicted shall be liable therefor, and the
payment shall be recovered by distress.
27. If anyone who has taken out a licence or licences
does not produce and deliver the licence or licences to be
examined and read by any district commissioner within a
reasonable time after that officer requests the production
thereof, he shall be liable to a fine of seventy- five dollars.
28. A district commissioner may, at any hour between
six o’clock in the morning and six o’clock in the evening, enter
on any premises whereon is any carriage, cart, or other
vehicle kept for hire, or any horse, donkey, or mule, kept for
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hire.
Assaulting
district
commissioner
in execution of
duty.

Onus of proof
in certain
proceedings.
Onus of proof
as to animal or
thing found on
premises.

Application of
certain
enactments to
holders of
hire, and may inspect and ascertain its state and condition.
29. Anyone who assaults, obstructs, hinders, or
molests a district commissioner in the execution of his duty
under this Act shall be liable to a fine of three hundred
dollars.
PROCEDURE
30. Where, in any proceedings taken for the recovery
of a penalty for the failure or omission to take out any licence
required by law in respect of a vehicle or an animal, any
question arises as to the number of the vehicles or animals
which the person proceeded against has kept and used, or
owned and permitted to be used, or has used, the burden of
proving the number of the vehicles or animals kept and used,
or owned and permitted to be used, or used, by the
defendant, and that he has a licence for each, shall lie on the
defendant.
31. Every animal and everything in respect of which a
licence to keep, or to use, or to keep and use, or to own and
permit to be used, or to carry it, as the case may be, is by law
required, found in or on the premises of the person by law
required to take out that licence, or in the possession or under
the control of, or being used or permitted to be used by that
person, his attorney, agent, clerk, or servant, whether acting
or employed for a term, for an undefined period, or for a
special occasion, shall be deemed prima facie to be kept, or
used, or kept and used, or owned and permitted to be used,
or carried, as the case may be, by that person; and the onus of
showing that the animal or thing found was not in fact kept,
or used, or kept and used, or owned and permitted to be
used, or carried, as the case may be, by him shall be on him.
32. The provisions of any enactments for the time
being in force relating to proceedings in cases where the
holder of a licence under any Act relating to wine and spirit
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licences, and
their attorneys.

Liability of
person found
on licensed
premises
during period
when business
cannot be
lawfully
transacted or
they should be
closed.

Sale of articles
ordered to be
sold under this
Act.

licences is made liable to a penalty in respect of any act or
omission, and a charge is preferred alleging that act or
omission, and relating to the liability to penalties of the
attorney of the holder of a licence where that holder is
without Guyana, shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to every
holder of a licence of whatever kind under this Act and to his
attorneys, agents, clerks, and servants, whether acting or
employed for a term, for an undefined period, or for a special
occasion.
33. (1) Anyone who is found in or on any licensed
premises within a period during which business cannot
therein be lawfully transacted, or during which those
premises are by law required to be closed or forbidden to be
opened, shall, unless he satisfies the magistrate that he was
on the premises as an inmate, servant, or lodger or otherwise
lawfully, be liable to a fine of thirty dollars.
(2) Any police constable may demand the name
and address of anyone found in or on licensed premises
within the period aforesaid, and, if the name or address is not
given, or if there is reasonable ground for suspecting the
name and address given to be false, may arrest that person
without a warrant, unless he produces satisfactory proof as to
the correctness of the name and address given, and take him
as soon as practicable before a justice of the peace.
(3) Anyone who fails, when so required by a police
constable to give his name and address, or gives a false name
or address, or produces false testimony in respect of his name
or address, shall be liable to a fine of seventy-five dollars.
34. All articles ordered to be sold by virtue of any of
the preceding provisions of this Act shall be publicly sold by
some police officer or constable, by direction of the
magistrate, for cash to the highest bidder, and the magistrate
shall cause notice of the intended sale to be affixed upon a
LAWS OF GUYANA
Miscellaneous Licences

Cap. 80:04 19
L.R.O. 1/2012

Recovery of
fines, penalties
and forfeitures.

Power to the
Minister to
order delivery
up of article
seized.

Police officer or
constable not
aiding in
execution of
this Act.

Procedure.

Power to make
regulations.
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board in his court room at least one week before the day of
sale, unless the article seized is of a perishable nature, in
which case the same shall be sold at the time and in the
manner directed by the magistrate; and the surplus proceeds
of every sale held under this section, after payment of any
penalty awarded against the owner of the article sold,
together with all costs and expenses, shall be paid to the
owner, if he is known, and if he is not known they shall
accrue due and shall be paid to the Accountant General for
the public use.
35. All fines, penalties, and forfeitures incurred under
this Act shall and may be sued for and recovered under and
in accordance with the Summary Jurisdiction Acts.
36. The Minister may order any article seized under
or by virtue of any of the provisions of this Act to be restored
in any manner and on any terms and conditions he thinks fit
to direct.
37. Every police officer or constable who without
lawful excuse refuses or neglects to aid and assist in the
execution of this Act, when thereto required by any district
commissioner or other person whomsoever, shall be liable
for each such offence to a fine of not less than thirty dollars
and not more than one hundred and fifty dollars.
38. All proceedings under this Act shall be conducted
as nearly as may be in manner and form provided by the
Summary Jurisdiction Acts.
39. The Minister may make regulations for carrying
into effect the provisions of this Act.
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