Auctioneers Act 1845
Vict/8-9 c. 15 · Enacted 8 May 1845 · Extends to United Kingdom
An Act to impose a new duty on the licence to be taken out by all auctioneers in the United Kingdom.
Annotations to the whole text
Modifications
- C1
Short title “The Auctioneers Act 1845” given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)
- C2
Part of long title and preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1891 (c. 67)
- C3
Certain words of enactment repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1891 (c. 67) and remainder omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948(c. 62), s. 3
- C4
This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland
Contents
- 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
- 2—6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
- 7Auctioneer, before sale shall suspend or affix a ticket or board containing his full christian and surname and place of residence.
- 8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
- 9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
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2—6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .F1
7Auctioneer, before sale shall suspend or affix a ticket or board containing his full christian and surname and place of residence.C1
Every auctioneer, before beginning any auction, shall affix or suspend, or cause to be affixed or suspended, a ticket or board, containing his true and full christian and surname and residence painted, printed, or written in large letters publicly visible and legible, in some conspicuous part of the room or place where the auction is held, so that all persons may easily read the same, and shall also keep such ticket or board so affixed or suspended during the whole time of such auction being held; and if any auctioneer begins any auction, or acts as auctioneer at any auction, in any room or place where his name and residence is not so painted or written on a ticket or board so affixed or suspended, and kept affixed or suspended as aforesaid, he shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of twenty pounds.