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5.-(1) No arms of ammunition shall be sold to any Conditions
person-
to be observed on sale of
arn s or
ammunition
for use in the Colony or removal from the Colony.
(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 First 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.
Schedule, Form No. 1.
Receipt to
be obtained from ship
cases.
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- in certain five dollars in value, obtain the receipt of the master or mate of the vessei named in such permit for the whole of the armis 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.
arms or
7. No person shall move or cause to be moved any arms Prohibition or ammunition within the Colony or the waters thereof, of moving without having first obtained a removal permit, in Form No. 1 ammunition in the First Schedule, from the Inspector General of Police: without permit. Provided that this prohibition shall not apply to arms or ammunition belonging to or for the use of His Majesty's Schedule,
First forces or the Colonial Government, or which are the property Form No. 1. 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.
ammunition
out licence.
8. Subject to the provisions of section 4, if any arms of Penalty for ammunition are found on board of any steam-launch or motor arms or boat, or junk or other similar vessel, and the person in charge found on thereof, or appearing or acting as the master or as in charge vessel with- 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 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.