Section 13
Power to arrest persons loitering suspiciously about secondhand goods dealer’s shop
of Secondhand Goods Dealers Act 2007
ActIn forceProvision 13 of 22
Section 13
(1)
Any police officer, having reason to believe that a person in or loitering about the shop of any secondhand goods dealer under suspicious circumstances has any stolen property with him or her, may arrest that person and require that person to produce any property which that person has with him or her.
(2)
Where any property is produced by any person under subsection (1) and if the police officer has reason to suspect that property to be stolen property, the police officer may take the person and the property, or cause the person and property to be taken, to a police station to be dealt with according to law.