THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 17, 1933. 87
section 29 Provided that no person shall be liable to any punishment under this section if it is proved that he was not the person in charge, but was on board as a bonâ fide passenger or member of the crew and was neither a party to nor aware of the presence of any such arms or ammunition on board.
out warrant
9. Every person carrying or having in his possession or Arrest with- moving, or reasonably suspected of carrying or having in his of person possession or moving, any arms or ammunition in contraven- carrying tion of this Ordinance may be arrested without a warrant by or having any police officer, and shall be conveyed as soon as may be them in his to a police station, to be dealt with according to law.
arms, etc.,
possession.
registration
etc., of
arms or
10. (1) Every importer of, dealer in, or vendor of Annual arms or ammunition shall take out a licence annually from the line and Inspector General of Police, and shall register his name and by importer, place of business and any godown, warehouse, or other place in which he stores or intends to store arms or aminunition, at ammunition. the office of the Inspector General of Police; and if he fails to do so he shall be liable to the punishment prescribed by section 29.
(2) The fee payable for such licence shall be that Second mentioned in the Second Schedule.
(3) The Inspector General of Police may, for any cause which he may think fit, refuse to grant a licence to import, or deal in, or sell arms and ammunition, or arms only, or ammunition only, and may cancel any such licence for any cause which he may think fit, and after any such cancellation, it shall not be lawful, unless such cancellation is reversed, for the person named in such licence to import, or deal in, or sell arms or ammunition: Frovided that an appeal to the Governor in Council shall lie in respect of any such refusal or cancellation: Provided, also, that, in the event of such cancellation, the holder of the licence may receive back, if the Governor in Council thinks fit, a proportionate part of the fee in respect of the unexpired portion of the term of such licence.
Schedule.
(4) The annual licences of retail dealers in, or retail Third vendors of, arms or ammunition shall be subject to the Schedule.
conditions set out in the Third Schedule.
only in registered
11. No arms or ammunition shall without the written Storage permission of the Inspector General of Police, be kept or stored by any importer of, or dealer in, or vendor of arms or place. ammunition in any place other than the place registered by him for that purpose.
returns.
12. Every importer of, or dealer in, or vendor of arms Stock-book or ammunition shall keep a stock-book in which the particulars and quarterly of all the stocks of arms and ammunition in his possession shall be entered, and shall, on or before the 6th day of February, May, August, and November respectively in each year, furnish to the Inspector General of Police a true return, showing exactly the quantity and description of arms and ammunition remaining in his possession at the close of the last day of the preceeding month.
13. Every importer of, or dealer in, or vendor of arms Book of or ammunition shall keep a book of sales, in which he shall sales. keep an account of all arms or ammunition sold or otherwise disposed of by him, together with a record of the name, occupation, and address of every purchaser thereof, the