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Duty of pawnbroker in certain suspicious circumstances.
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37.—(1) Where it appears to a pawnbroker that—
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(a) the circumstances in which a person offers an article to him by way of pawn are suspicious, or
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(b) the person attempting to redeem a pledge has no right or bona fide claim of right to redeem the pledge,
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the pawnbroker shall require the person to inform him of the means by which the article or the pawn-ticket, as the case may be, came into his possession.
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(2) Where a person who is required by a pawnbroker to give information under subsection (1) of this section is unable or refuses to give to the pawnbroker a satisfactory account of himself or of the means by which the article or the pawn-ticket in question came into his possession, or gives any information about the article or pawn-ticket or about his name or address or the name or address of the owner of the article which appears to the pawnbroker to be false, or if the pawnbroker has any other reason to suspect that the article or pawn-ticket has been stolen or otherwise unlawfully or wrongfully obtained, the pawnbroker shall immediately report the circumstances to a member of the Garda Síochána at the nearest Garda Síochána station and shall take all reasonable steps to detain the person and seize the article or pawn-ticket and to deliver the person and the article or pawn-ticket as soon as practicable into the custody of a member of the Garda Síochána.
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(3) A pawnbroker who fails to comply with any requirement of this section shall be guilty of an offence.
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