Tracing possession

(1) If any person brought or appearing before a magistrate under section 2, 4 or 5 of this Act, declares that he received anything reasonably suspected to have been stolen or unlawfully obtained from some other person, or that he was employed as a carrier, agent or servant to convey that thing for some other person, the magistrate may cause every such other person, and also any other person through whose possession that thing shall previously have passed, to be brought before 8 him either by summons or by warrant, as the magistrate in each case thinks fit. (2) Upon any person mentioned in subsection (1) of this section being brought before him, the magistrate may examine that person on oath as to whether he has been in possession or control of any such thing as aforesaid and upon his admitting such possession or control, or upon its being proved to the satisfaction of the magistrate that such person has been in possession of any such thing, the magistrate may call upon such person to give an account to the satisfaction of the magistrate by what lawful means he came by such thing, and if such person fails, within a reasonable time to be assigned by the magistrate, to give such account, he shall on summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months. (3) For the purposes of this section the possession of a carrier, agent or servant shall be deemed to be the possession of the person who employed the carrier, agent or servant to convey the same.