Singapore legislation
Section 35
Section 35
Offences relating to pawner not giving satisfactory account of himself, giving false information, etc.
(1)
Any person who —
offers to a pawnbroker an article by way of pawn, being unable or refusing to give a satisfactory account of the means by which he became possessed of the article;
wilfully gives false information to a pawnbroker as to whether an article offered by him in pawn to the pawnbroker is his own property or not, or as to his name and address or as to the name and address of the owner of the article; or
not being entitled to redeem and not having any colour of title by law to redeem a pledge, attempts or endeavours to redeem the property,shall be guilty of an offence.
(2)
In every such case, and also in any case where, on an article being offered in pawn to a pawnbroker he reasonably suspects that it has been stolen or otherwise illegally or clandestinely obtained, the pawnbroker may seize and detain the person and the article, or either of them and shall deliver the person and the article or either of them, as the case may be, as soon as possible into the custody of a police officer, who shall as soon as possible convey the person, if so detained, before a Magistrate, to be dealt with according to law.[33