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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND JANUARY,
Penalty
Members of a society.
(Straits Settle- ment Ord. 19 of 1889, u. 25.)
Presumptive
proof of membership. (Straits Settle- ment Ord. 4 of
1882. B. 5.)
Masonic Lodges ex- cluded.
Persons joined in ignorance, &c.
Repeal.
to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars or to six months' imprisonment with or without hard labour, or to both.
9. The words Member of a Society shall denote a per- son who having been admitted therein according to the Rules and Regulations thereof, shall have paid an entrance fee or a subscription, or shall have attended two or more meetings of the Society as a member, or shall have signed the roll or list of members of the society, or otherwise shall have become recognised as a member by the Rules and Regulations of the Society, and shall not have resigned or withdrawn from or been expelled from the Society, and shall include all managers and office bearers.
10. When any of the boners, insignia, or writings of any society declared by this Ordinance to be unlawful are found in the possession, custody, or control of any per- son, it shall be presumed, till the contrary is shown by such person, that he is a member of such unlawful society. 11. This Ordinance shall not apply to any duly con- stituted Masonic Lodge.
12. No person shall be considered as coming within the provisions or intent of this Ordinance who shall have joined the Triad or any other Secret Society in ignorance of their designs or under the influence of terror.
13. Ordinances 1 and 12 of 1845 are hereby repealed.
Ordinance 22 of 1884, sec. 2.
Penalty for being found carrying deadly
Weapons. [Ordinance 14 of 1870, sec. 18 altered.]
Governor may grant licence to carry armis, [Ordinance 22 of 1884,,sec. 3.]
Proviso.
Police may arrest without warrant any person carry- ing arms. [Ordinance 22 of 1884, vec. 4.]
Unlawfully possessing offensive weapons, &c. [Ordinance 14 of 1845, sec. 12.]
No person to keep in any house, store, &c, more than fifteen tbs, of gun- powder. (Sub-soc, 10,
sec. 37 of 8 of
1879.)
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to regulate the carrying and possession of arms.
BE
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as The Arms Ordinance, 1887.
2. In this Ordinance the expression arms includes any description of fire-arms, also any sword, cutlass, spear, pike, bayonet, dagger, or other deadly weapon, also any part of any arms as so defined.
3. Every person who shall without reasonable excuse, the proof of which shall lie upon him, carry any arms about him, whether by night or day, shall be liable on Summary Conviction thereof, to a fine pot exceeding one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any period not exceeding six months, and such weapon shall be forfeited to the Crown.
4. The Governor in Council may from time to time at discretion grant licences to carry arms subject to such conditions to be specified in the licence as to the Governor in Council may seem fit, and may from time to time at discretion reyoke any such licence.
Provided that this section shall not prevent the owner of any trading or fishing junk who has given security to the Harbour Master under section 38 of Ordinance 8 of 1879 from having without licence on board of his junk such arms as are reasonably necessary for the protection of such junk on the high seas.
5. Any person carrying or reasonably suspected of carrying any arms in contravention of this Ordinance may be arrested without warrant by any Police Officer, and conveyed as soon as reasonably can be, before a Magistrate in order to his being dealt with according to law.
6. Every person who shall have in his possession any spear, bludgeon, or other offensive weapon or any crowbar, picklock, skeleton key, or other instrument fit for unlawful purposes, who shall be unable to give satisfactory account of his possession thereof, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars, or in the discretion of the Presiding Magistrate to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding one month.
7. It shall not be lawful for any person, without the permission in writing of the Governor, to keep for any time however short within any house, store, godown, or other place on land, a larger quantity of gunpowder that fifteen pounds. Every person contravening against this section shall on Summary Conviction thereof be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars or to imprisonment not ex- ceeding one month.
1887.