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Conditions for sale of arms or ammunition.
First Schedule, Form 1.
Receipt to be obtained from ship in certain cases.
Prohibition of moving arms or ammunition without permit.
First Schedule, Form 1.
Arms and Ammunition.
or possession shall be deemed carriage or possession by the licensed or exempted person.
(9) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to exempt from the provisions of subsection (1) the owner or master of any vessel or class of vessel whatsoever in respect of arms and ammunition which shall be on board such vessel and shall be reasonably necessary for its protection.
5. (1) No arms or ammunition shall be sold to any person―
(a) for use within the Colony, unless the purchaser presents, at or before the time of purchase, a valid licence either to carry or to have in his possession such arms or ammunition, together with a removal permit in the prescribed form, or unless he is an exempted person; or
(b) for removal from the Colony, unless the purchaser presents, at or before the time of purchase, a removal permit in the prescribed form endorsed by the authority issuing the permit with the words "permitted to remove from the Colony”.
(2) Such removal permit so endorsed shall be deemed equivalent to a licence to carry or possess arms or ammunition up to the time named in such permit for the return thereof.
6. Any person who obtains a permit for the removal of arms or ammunition from the Colony shall, when the whole of the arms and ammunition specified therein exceed twenty-five 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 removal 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, without having first obtained a removal permit in the prescribed form from the Commissioner 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 Government, or which are the property of an exempted person and for his personal use, the onus of proof
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