ARMS AND AMMUNITION.
No. 2 of 1900.
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(iv) any person recommended for exemption by the Colonial Secretary to the Captain Superintendent of Police.
(e) "Importer" includes every person, whether a commission agent or otherwise, to whom, or to whose order, arms or ammunition landed in the Colony are consigned: Provided that this definition shall not apply in the case of arms or ammunition consigned to any officer in His Majesty's service for the use of His Majesty's naval or military forces, Imperial or Colonial.
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Junk.
(f) "Junk" includes "lorcha". (g) "To move" or "to remove" includes every kind of movement, transport, or conveyance not included in the expression "to carry".
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(h) Arms or ammunition on the body, or in the custody or under the control, of any person shall be deemed to be in his possession.
(2) "Vessel" includes any ship or boat or any other description of vessel used in navigation.
licence to carry or
3.--(1) The Captain Superintendent of Police may grant to any person a licence either to carry arms and ammunition, or to have arms and ammunition in his possession, or to do both, subject to such conditions as he may deem fit.
(2) Unless in any particular case the Captain Superintendent of Police otherwise directs, such licence shall be issued for a limited period only, shall be made out in the name of the grantee, shall bear a number and the dates of issue and expiry, shall not be transferable, and shall specify the arms and ammunition which it covers: Provided, nevertheless, that an appeal to the Governor in Council shall lie from any refusal by the Captain Superintendent of Police to grant such licence.
arms and ammunition.
of unexempt-
4. No person who has not a licence for the purpose shall either carry or have in his possession any arms or ammunition: but this prohibition shall not extend to any exempted person, nor apply so as to prevent the owner or master of any vessel from having on board such arms and ammunition as are reasonably necessary for the protection of such vessel, and provided that, in the case of a junk or other Chinese vessel,
* See No. 10 of 1886, Second Schedule.
† As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
[cf. No. 3 of 1903.]