ARMS AND AMMUNITION.
No. 2 of 1900.
1081
2. In this Ordinance,-
Arms include any cannon, gun, revolver, pistol and any description of firearms, and any sword, cutlass, spear, pike, bayonet, dagger, fighting-iron, or other deadly weapon, also any part of any such arms:
Vessel includes any ship or boat or any other description of vessel used in navigation:
"Junk" includes "lorcha":
"Ammunition" means any shell, cartridge, cartridge case, bullet, shot, percussion cap, or priming cap, and also any article which may be declared by regulation made by the Governor-in-Council to be ammunition:
"To carry," as applied to arms or ammunition, means to carry on the person, but does not include the transport or conveyance of such arms or ammunition from one place to another in the Colony in the ordinary course of business for storage or other business purposes:
To move or to remove as applied to arms or ammunition, includes every kind of movement, transport, or conveyance of such arms and ammunition not included in the expression "to carry":
"Importer" includes every person, whether a commission agent or otherwise, to whom, or to whose order, ammunition or arms landed in the Colony are consigned: Provided that this definition shall not apply in the case of ammunition or arms consigned to any officer in His Majesty's service for the use of His Majesty's naval or military forces, Imperial or Colonial:
Exempted person means and includes,-
(1) any person in the naval, military, volunteer and police forces, district watchmen, and members of the volunteer reserve, in respect of arms and ammunition used by them solely in connection with their duties;
(2) commissioned officers in the army and navy and officers appointed by letter from the Governor in the volunteer or police forces, the consular representatives of any foreign Government and commissioned officers of foreign armies and navies; any public
* As amended by 41 of 1911, No. 50 of 1911, No. 51 of 1911, No. 1 of 1912, No. 2 of 1912 and No. 21 of 1912. For regulations declaring articles to be ammunition see G.N. 870 of 1911.
Interpreta-tion of terms.*