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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 17, 1933.
Obligation to produce books to police.
Issue of search
warrant and punishment
for certain offences.
Punishment of purchaser furnishing false inform
tion for
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particulars of the arms and ammunition sold, the date of the sale, and the number and date of the licence presented or the date of the export permit, the name of the vessel by which such purchaser stated that he intended to export such arms or ammunition, and the port of destination thereof specified by such purchaser.
14. Every importer of, or dealer in, or vendor of arms or ammunition shall be bound, whenever required by any inspector of police, or by any officer of police bearing a written order in that behalf from the Inspector General of Police, to produce the said stockbook and book of sales for the inspection of the person so requiring him, for the purpose of comparing and balancing the same or for any other purpose, and also to allow the whole of his stock to be inspected and counted by such person.
15.-(1) Whenever it appears to a magistrate, upon the oath of any person, that there is reasonable cause to suspect that any person has furnished a false or incorrect return of arms or ammunition, or has failed or refused to make a return, or has not kept the books which he is required to keep under sections 12 and 13, or has kept such books in a false or incorrect manner, the magistrate may issue a warrant to arrest such person and to search any building, vessel (not being a ship of war or ship having the status of ship of war), or place where the arms or ammunition are alleged to be kept or stored, and any police officer to whom the said warrant is directed may, with or without assistants and using force, if necessary, enter any building, vessel, or place mentioned in the said warrant, and may search for and make an inventory of all arms and ammunition found therein, and may arrest the person named in such warrant and also any other person, who appears to have committed an offence against this Ordinance, and may cause such person and such arms and ammunition to be conveyed before a magistrate.
(2) Every person who is convicted of failing or refusing to make such return shall be liable to the punishment prescribed by section 29, and any arms or ammunition found upon his premises may, if the magistrate or judge thinks fit, be forfeited; and every person who is convicted of furnishing a false or incorrect return of arms or ammunition, or of not keeping the said books, or of keeping the said books in a false or incorrect manner, shall be liable to the same punish- ment and to the same forfeiture.
16. Every purchaser of arms or ammunition who knowingly furnishes any false information to any importer of, or dealer in, or vendor of arms or ammunition concerning registration. any particulars which such importer, dealer, or vendor is required to record under section 13 shall be liable to the punishment prescribed by section 29.
Prohibition
of importa- tion of arms and ammunition except at Vitoria
Storage of
arms or
17. No arms or ammunition shall be imported except at the port of Victoria, and the master of every vessel (not being a ship of war or hired armed vessel in the service of His Majesty or of any foreign nation) having on board as cargo any arins or ammunition, whether in transitu or for transhipment or otherwise, shall, on arrival, forthwith furnish to the Harbour Master a manifest thereof.
18. All arms or ammunition brought into the Colony for ammunition any port not in the Colony shall, if landed prior to tranship- ment, be stored only in such godowns or places as may be approved in writing by the Inspector General of Police:
landed in the Colony.