Pawnbrokers Act, 1964

Persons presenting pawn-tickets suspected to be counterfeit.

36.—(1) If any person utters, produces, shows or offers to a pawnbroker a pawn-ticket which the pawnbroker reasonably suspects to have been counterfeited, forged or altered, the pawnbroker shall take all reasonable steps to detain the person and seize the pawn-ticket and to deliver the person and the pawn-ticket as soon as possible into the custody of a member of the Garda Síochána.

(2) A pawnbroker who fails to comply with subsection (1) of this section shall be guilty of an offence.