ARMS AND AMMUNITION.
No. 2 of 1900.
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(3) An application for such permit shall be in Form No. 1 in the First Schedule, and shall be made out in Chinese as well as in English in a case where the applicant is a Chinese, and shall be signed by the vendor of the said arms or ammunition and filed by him with the Captain Superintendent of Police.
(4) No fee shall be payable in respect of filing any such application or granting any export or removal permit.
6. Every person who obtains an export permit shall, when exporting the whole of the arms and ammunition specified therein, 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 any arms or ammunition 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 No. 3 in the First Schedule, from the Captain Superintendent of Police: Provided that this prohibition shall not apply to arms or ammunition 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 arms or ammunition consigned to a port not in the Colony in transitu on any vessel as bona fide cargo and entered on the manifest, or in course of transhipment in unbroken packages from one vessel to another, if notice of such transhipment has been given to the Captain Superintendent of Police: nor to ammunition which, having been imported, is in course of transhipment to the Government Gunpowder Depôt; nor to arms or ammunition 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 4, if any arms or ammunition are found on board of any steam-launch or motor boat, or junk or other Chinese vessel, and the person in charge...
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
As amended by No. 4 of 1923.
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