Pawnbrokers (Amendment) Law (No. 23 of 1973)

Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Amendment of the section 26 of the principal enactment

12. Section 26 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows: -

(a) by the renumbering of that section as subsection (1) of that section; and

(b) by the insertion, immediately after the renumbered subsection (1) of that section, of the following new subsection: -

	(2) Where a pledge is to be sold by public auction under the preceding provisions of this section, the pawnbroker with whom such pledge had been pawned, shall give at least fourteen days' notice in writing to the Government Agent, of the date and time fixed for such sale, and the place at which such sale is to be held. '.