New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

PAWNBROKERS AND SECOND-HAND DEALERS REGULATION 2008 - REG 9

9 Records generally

(1) Records that are required to be kept for the purposes of the Act must be kept:

(a) if they are records to which a licence condition under clause 10 applies, in the form required by that condition, or

(b) if they are other records, electronically or in a bound (not loose-leaf) book.

Note: Clause 11 enables a licence to be issued or renewed, in some circumstances, without a condition of the kind referred to in clause 10.

(2) Any such records must:

(a) be in the English language, and

(b) have consecutively numbered pages, and

(c) permanently record the date on which each record was first compiled and the date on which each entry was made, and

(d) include the contract number referred to in clause 12 (1) (c) and (2) (c) for each item taken in trade or pawn.

(3) Despite subclause (1) and any condition imposed on a licence under clause 10:

(a) any hard copy of a written statement as to the ownership of goods obtained from a customer under clause 18 (4) may be kept in loose-leaf form, and

(b) any hard copy of the record of an agreement by which goods were pawned under section 28 of the Act may be kept in loose-leaf form so long as the record includes the contract number referred to in clause 12 (1) (c) and (2) (c) for each item taken in pawn and is kept in order of contract number.