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Exporter of arms or ammunition to obtain receipt from ship.
Prohibition of moving ammunition or arms without permit.
Penalty for ammunition or arms found on vessel without licence.
No. 2 of 1900.
ARMS AND AMMUNITION.
6. Every person who obtains an export permit shall, when the whole of the arms and ammunition specified therein exceed 25 dollars in value, obtain the receipt of the master or mate of the vessel named in such permit for the whole of the arms and ammunition specified therein and shall return such receipt, together with the export permit, to the person and at the time and place named in such permit.
7. No person shall move or cause to be moved ammunition or arms within the Colony or the waters thereof, except for the purpose of export and (where an export permit is required) under an export permit, without having first obtained a removal permit, in form 3 in the 1st schedule, from the Captain Superintendent of Police : Provided that this prohibition shall not apply to ammunition or arms belonging to or for the use of His Majesty's forces or the Colonial Government, or which are the property of an exempted person and for his personal use, the onus of proof being on such person: Provided, also, that this prohibition shall not apply to ammunition or arms consigned to a port not in this Colony in transitu on any vessel as bonâ fide cargo and entered on the manifest, or in course of transshipment in unbroken packages from one vessel to another, if notice of such transshipment has been given to the Captain Superintendent of Police: nor to ammunition which, having been imported, is in course of transshipment to the Government Gunpowder Depôt; nor to ammunition or arms which are actually on board of any vessel and in respect of which a licence to carry or to possess is not required by section 4.
8. Subject to the provisions of section, if any ammunition or arms are found on board of any steam-launch or motor boat, or junk or other Chinese vessel, and the person in charge thereof, or appearing or acting as the master or as in charge does not produce a valid authority under this Ordinance authorising him or some other person on board to carry or have in his possession such ammunition or arms, such person and all other persons, not being exempted persons, on board shall be deemed to have possession of such ammunition or arms, and shall be liable to the punishment prescribed.
* As amended by No. 1 of 1912 and No. 2 of 1912.
+ As amended by No. 41 of 1911, No. 50 of 1911, No. 51 of 1911, No. 1 of 1912, No. 2 of 1912, No. 21 of 1912 and No. 22 of 1912.
As amended by No. 50 of 1911, No. 1 of 1912, No. 2 of 1912, No. 21 of 1912, No. 22 of 1912 and No. 43 of 1912.
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