1824 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25TH NOVEMBER, 1899.
searches.
not exceeding one hundred dollars or to imprisonment for [Ibid. s. 19.] any term not exceeding three months with or without hard labour in addition to any other penalty or punishment he may be liable to by law or under this Ordinance.
Governor
may es-
tablish
24. The Governor may establish a central store or magazine for the safe keeping and storing of all arms and central store ammunition, and notice shall be given in the Government for arms, &c. Gazette of such selection and of the situation of the said [Ibid. s. 20.] store or magazine.
Governor
may order removal to ccutral store of all aruis, and close arm shops, &c.
25. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council during the continuance af any Proclamation issued under the pro- visions of the Peace Preservation Ordinance, 1885, to order the removal to the said central store of all arms and ammunition in the possession of any importers or dealers in or vendors of arms, or of such arms and ammunition only as in the opinion of the Governor-in-Conncil are not in safe [Ibid. s. 21.] keeping or custody, or to order the closing of all arm shops or stores and the suspension of the sale of all arms and ammunition during the continuance of such Proclamation as aforesaid. All orders made under this section shall forth- with be published in the Government Gazette.
Penalty for refusing to deliver up arms.
[Ibid. s. 22.]
Power of
make rules.
26. Any person refusing after the publication of such order to deliver up any arms or ammunition, the removal of which to the said central store shall have been ordered under the provisions of the last preceding section, and any person omitting or refusing otherwise to comply with any order published as aforesaid shall on conviction before a Magistrate be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or to imprisonment for any period not exceeding six months with or without hard labour.
27. The Governor in Council may from time to time Governor to make any regulations necessary for carrying out this Ordi- [Ibid. 8. 23.] Dance, and may revoke, alter or add to the forms contained in the schedule to this Ordinance, and such regulations and forms shall have the force of law when published in the Government Gazette, and shall have the same effect as if they were incorporated in this Ordinance.
Penalties for breach of
28. Except when otherwise specially provided by this Ordinance, any person committing any breach or infringe- Ordinance or ment or contravention of any of the provisions contained in Regulations. [1bid. s. 18, this Ordinance or of any regulation made thereunder, or subs. (2).]
failing to perform any duty imposed upon him by this Ordinance or by any such regulation, shall be liable for every such offence, upon summary conviction before a Magis- trate, to a fine not exceeding two Hundred and fifty dollars with or without imprisonment for any period not exceeding six months with or without hard labour; and in default of payment of such fine, such Magistrate may order that the offender be imprisoned for any period not exceeding six months, with or without hard labour, unless the fine be sooner paid.
Forfeiture of arms and
29. Any arms or ammunition in connection with which an offence has been committed under this Ordinance may, ammunition if a Magistrate thinks fit, be forfeited to the Crown.
connected
with offence.
[New in
part.]
arms and
ammunition in certain
cases.
Forfeiture of 30. Any arms or ammunition which are found in any building, vessel or place without any apparent owner, or any arms or ammunition which are found on board of any merchant vessel and are not entered in the manifest, may, whether any person is charged with or convicted of any offence or not, be ordered by a Magistrate, if he thinks fit, to be forfeited to the Crown.
[New]
SCHEDULE
(A)
The Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, 1899, (are. 6).
APPLICATION FOR EXPORT PERMIT.
Hongkong,
To the Captain Superintendent of Police.
Sir,
Please issue a permit for the export of the undermentioned Arms and Ammunition now stored at
board the
anchor at
street, to be shipped on
named the
at present at
and about to proceed to