Section 31

if any person is convicted under this Act before a Magistrate’s Court of knowingly and designedly pawning with a pawnbroker anything being the property of another person, the pawner not being employed or authorised by the owner thereof to pawn the property.(b)if any person is convicted in any court of any offence against property which offence is defined or dealt with by any of the provisions of sections 378 to 420, both inclusive, of the Penal Code [Cap. 224], and it appears to the Magistrate’s Court or other court that the property has been pawned with a pawnbroker; or

if in any proceedings before a Magistrate’s Court or other court it appears to the court that any goods and chattels brought before the court have been unlawfully pawned with a pawnbroker,the court, on proof of the ownership of the goods and chattels, may, if it thinks fit, order the delivery thereof to the owner, either on payment to the pawnbroker of the amount of the loan or any part thereof, or without payment thereof or of any part thereof, as to the court, according to the conduct of the owner and the other circumstances of the case, seems just and fitting.