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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 17, 1933.
Conditions to be
observed on
sale of
arns or
ammunition
for use
in the Colony or
removal from
the Colony.
(9) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to exempt from the provisions of sub-section (1) the owner or master of any vessel or class of vessel whatsoever in respect of arms and ammunition which shall be on board such vessel and shall be reasonably necessary for its protection.
5.-(1) No
arms
person-
or ammunition shall be sold to any
First Schedule.
Form No. 1.
Receipt to
be obtained from ship in certain cases.
Prohibition of moving
arms or
ammunition without permit.
First Schedule, Form No. 1.
Penalty for
arnis or
ammunition found on vessel with- out licence.
(a) for use within the Colony, unless the purchaser presents, at or before the time of purchase, a valid licence either to carry or to have in his possession such arms or ammunition, together with a removal permit in Form No. 1 in the First Schedule, or unless he is an exempted person; or
(b) for removal from the Colony, unless the purchaser presents, at or before the time of purchase, a removal permit, in Form No. 1 in the First Schedule, endorsed by the authority issuing the permit with the words "permitted to remove from the Colony".
(2) Such removal permit so endorsed shall be deemed equivalent to a licence to carry or possess arms or ammunition up to the time named in such permit for the return thereof.
6. Every person who obtains a permit for the removal of arms or ammunition from the Colony shall, when the whole of the arms and ammunition specified therein exceed twenty- five dollars in value, obtain the receipt of the master or mate of the vessel named in such permit for the whole of the arms and ammunition specified therein and shall return such receipt, together with the removal permit, to the person and at the time and place named in such permit.
7. No person shall move or cause to be moved any arms or ammunition within the Colony or the waters thereof, without having first obtained a removal permit, in Form No. 1 in the First Schedule, from the Inspector General of Police: Provided that this prohibition shall not apply to arms or ammunition belonging to or for the use of His Majesty's forces or the Colonial Government, or which are the property of an exempted person and for his personal use, the onus of proof being on such person: Frovided,, also, that this prohibition shall not apply to arms or ammunition consigned to a port not in the Colony in transitu on any vessel as bonâ fide cargo and entered on the manifest, or to arms or ammuni- tion which are actually on board of any vessel and in respect of which a licence to carry or to possess is not required by section 4.
8. Subject to the provisions of section 4, if any arms or ammunition are found on board of any steam-launch or motor boat, or junk or other similar vessel, and the person in charge thereof, or appearing or acting as the master or as in charge does not produce a valid authority under this Ordinance authorising him or some other person on board to carry or have in his possession such arms or ammunition, such person and all other persons, not being exempted persons, on board shall be deemed to have possession of such arms or ammuni- tion, and shall be liable to the punishment prescribed by