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9. Every person carrying or having in his possession or out warrant moving, or reasonably suspected of carrying or having in his possession or moving, any arms or ammunition in contraven- tion of this Ordinance may be arrested without a warrant by any police officer, and shall be conveyed as soon as may be to a police station, to be dealt with according to law.
of person carrying arms, etc., or having them in his possession.
Annual
licence and registration
etc., of
10.-(1) Every importer of, dealer in, or vendor of arms or ammunition shall take out a licence annually from the by importer, Inspector General of Police, and shall register his name and place of business and any godown, warehouse, or other place in which he stores or intends to store arms or aminunition, at 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.
arms or ammunition.
Second Schedule.
Third Schedule.
Storage only in registered place.
Stock-book
returns.
(2) The fee payable for such licence shall be that 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 : Provided 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.
(4) The annual licences of retail dealers in, or retail vendors of, arms or ammunition shall be subject to the conditions set out in the Third Schedule.
11. No arms or ammunition shall without the written permission of the Inspector General of Police, be kept or stored by any importer of, or dealer in, or vendor of arms or ammunition in any place other than the place registered by him for that purpose.
12. Every importer of, or dealer in, or vendor of arms and quarterly or ammunition shall keep a stock-book in which the particulars 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.
Book of sales.
13. Every importer of, or dealer in, or vendor of arms or ammunition shall keep a book of sales, in which he shall 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 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.