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ARMS AND AMMUNITION.
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ammunition, he shall, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to the punishment prescribed by section 28.
23. Every person who obstructs, hinders, or resists, or assists in obstructing, hindering, or resisting, any search or arrest authorized by this Ordinance shall, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding three months, in addition to any other penalty or punishment to which he may be liable by law or under this Ordinance.
Penalty for obstructing authorized search or arrest.
24. The Governor may establish a central store or magazine for the safe keeping and storing of all arms and ammunition, and notice shall be given in The Gazette of such selection and of the situation of the said store or magazine.
Power to establish central store for arms and ammunition.
25.-(1.) It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council, during the continuance of any proclamation issued under the provisions of the Peace Preservation Ordinance, 1886, to order the removal to the said central store of all arms and ammunition in the possession of porters of, or dealers in, or vendors of arms, or of such arms and ammunition only as, in the opinion of the Governor-in-Council, are or is not in safe keeping or custody, or to order the closing of all arms shops or stores and the suspension of the sale of all arms and ammunition during the continuance of such proclamation as aforesaid.
(2.) Any order made under this section shall forthwith be published in The Gazette.
26. Every person who refuses, after the publication of any such order, to deliver up any arms or ammunition, the removal of which to the said central store has been ordered under the provisions of the last preceding section, and every person who omits or refuses otherwise to comply with any order published as aforesaid, shall, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding six months.
27.-(1.) The Governor-in-Council may from time to time make any regulations necessary for carrying out this Ordinance, and may revoke, alter, or add to the forms in the First Schedule to this Ordinance.
(2) Such regulations and forms shall have the force of law when published in The Gazette and shall have the same effect as if they were incorporated in this Ordinance.
Power to order removal to central store of all arms and ammunition, and to close arms shops, etc.
No. 10 of 1886.
Penalty for refusing to deliver up arms or ammunition.
Making of regulations, etc.
First Schedule.
28. Except when any other penalty is specially provided by this Ordinance, every person who commits any breach or infringement of
Penalty for breach of the Ordinance.
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