Power to stop and
search boats, persons, etc.
(38 & 39 Vic. c. 25, s. 6.)
(See too 1 of
1845, s. 39.)
Saving of liability under other Ordinances.
Repeal of Ordinance 4 of 1875.
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16. Any European police officer or constable may stop, search, and detain any launch. junk, lighter, cargo- boat, or sampan, or open boat of any description in or on which there is reason to suspect that any marine stores stolen or unlawfully obtained may be found, or any person reasonably suspected of having or conveying in any manner any marine stores stolen or unlawfully obtained.
17. Nothing in this Ordinance shall prevent any person from being liable to prosecution under any other Ordinance which is applicable provided that no person shall be punished twice for the same offence.
18. The Naval Stores Ordinance, 1875, is hereby repealed.
SCHEDULE.
[s. 13.]
Marks appropriated for His Majesty's use in or on Naval and Victualling Stores,
STORES.
MARKS.
Hempen cordage and wire | White, black, or coloured
rope.
Canvas, fearnought ham- mocks and seamen's bags.
Bunting
Candles
worsted threads, laid up with the yarns and the wire respectively.
A blue line in a serpentine
form.
A double tape in the warp.
Blue or red cotton threads in each wick, or wicks of red cotton.
Timber, metal, and other The Broad Arrow.
stores not before enumer-
ated.
Objects and Reasons.
1. The object of this bill is to prevent thefts which take place in and in the neighbourhood of the harbour of marine stores which are defined so as to include coal, and though based upon the provisions of Ordi- nance 4 of 1875, it is much wider in its scope than that Ordinance inasmuch as coal and marine stores belonging to companies, firms, and individuals as well as to the Crown are liable to be stolen. The Ordinance also includes for the first time marine hawkers as well as dealers in marine stores and compels such hawkers as well as dealers to take out a licence for that purpose with the proviso that such hawkers can only apply for a licence through a dealer, who is required to put up security for such hawker (see clause 3). Such licence is granted and held at the discretion of the Captain Superintendent of Police on such conditions as to fees and subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by the Governor in Council (see clause 4).
2. Every dealer in marine stores is required to keep
a book with reference to such stores (see clause 5).
3. Clause 6 enables the police to inspect the goods of the dealer or hawker and the books and papers of the dealer.