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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25r¤ NOVEMBER, 1899.
Short title.
Repeals.
Interpreta- tion.
(8 of 1895.
3.)
Licence to carry or
ammunition without a licence. (Ibid. s. 5 toodified.)
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the law relating to the carriage and possession of arms and ammunition.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:--
1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Arms and Ammuuition Ordinance, 1899.
2. Ordinances Nos. 8 of 1895 and 14 of 1895 are hereby repealed.
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3. In this Ordinance, unless inconsistent with the con- text or subject matter,
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The expression "arms shall include any cannon, guo, revolver, pistol, and any description of fire-arms, and any sword, cutlass, spear, pike, bayonet, dagger, fighting iron or other deadly weapon, also any part of any arms so defined :
The expression "vessel shall include any ship or boat or any other description of vessel used in navi- gation.
Arms or ammunition on the body of or in the custody or under the control of any person shall be deemed to be in his "possession.”
4. The Captain Superintendent of Police may from time to time in his discretion grant to any person a licence either possess arms to carry arms and ammuuition, or arms only, or ammuni- and ammuni-
tion ouly, or to have arms and ammunition, or arms only, tion. (Thid, s. 4.)
or ammunition only in his possession, or to do both, subject to such conditions as the Captain Superintendent of Police may deem fit.
Unless in any particular case the Captain Superintendent of Police shall otherwise direct, such licence shall be issued for a limited period only, shall be made out in the name of the grantee, shall bear a number and the dates of issue and expiry, and shall not be transferable. No person to 5. No person, who has not a licence from the Captain carry arms or Superintendent of Police for the purpose, shall either carry any arms or ammunition or have any arms or ammunition in his possession in this Colony: Provided that this pro- hibition shall not extend to any person in the Naval or Military or Civil Services of the Crown, or to any officer or volunteer as defined by Ordinance No. 6 of 1893 or by any Ordinance amending or substituted for the same, or to Justices of the Peace, or to Special Jurors, or to such per- sons as are exempted by law from serving on a jury on account of their avocation or profession, or to any person in the Police Force of the Colony, or to District Watchmen, or to any weapons of ceremony worn as part of his regular uniform by any Naval or Military or Civil Officer of any, foreign nation: Provided also that this prohibition shall not apply so as to prevent the owner or master of any vessel from having on board such armis and ammunition as are reasonably necessary for the protection of such vessel, and provided that in the case of every junk or other Chinese vessel such arms and ammunition shall be described and enumerated in the licence or clearance issued by the Har- bour Master: Provided also that this prohibition shall not apply to arms or ammunition which are consigned to a port other than Hongkong and are in transitu aud on board of any vessel as bonâ fide cargo and have been entered upon the manifest of such vessel, or to arms or ammunition so consigned in course of transhipment in unbroken pack- ages from one vessel to another, if notice of such tranship- ment has been sent to the Captain Superintendent of Police, or to ammunition which is being exported from the Colony direct from the Government Depôt on Stonecutters' Island under a delivery order issued by the Harbour Master. Licence to be 6. No arms or ammunition shall be sold to any person presented for (not exempted by the provisos in section 5 from the neces- arms or am- sity of taking out a licence)—
munition
sold for use
within the
Colony.
Export
perinit to be obtained for arms, etc. sold for
(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, or
(b.) for export from the Colony unless the vendor has obtained from the Captain Superintendent of Police an export permit which may be in the form given in