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Defence for pawnbroker.
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39.—Where proceedings, whether civil or criminal, are brought against a pawnbroker in respect of anything done by him in the course of detaining or attempting to detain any person, or seizing or attempting to seize any thing, in accordance with a requirement of this Act, it shall be a good defence for him to prove that anything so done was done upon reasonable grounds and in the bona fide belief that the detaining or seizing was necessary under this Act.
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