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22 of 1950, Schedule.
Liability of proprietor of dwelling-house.
22 of 1950, Schedule.
Firing near dwelling-house or road.
22 of 1950, Schedule.
Offences relating to vessels, seamen and merchandise.
Summary Offences.
or occupier, or inhabitant or person in charge aforesaid, and being satisfied that he did so direct, sanction, suffer or permit the making of the said noise, to impose a fine on such proprietor or occupier, or inhabitant or person in charge aforesaid, of five hundred dollars.
(4) When such noise as aforesaid is made in or upon any dwellinghouse or premises, if it is impracticable or difficult to apprehend, discover or identify the person so making it, it shall be lawful for a magistrate, on information thereof, to summon before him the proprietor or occupier, or inhabitant or person in charge, of such dwellinghouse or premises, and if it appears that such noise was made by the direction or with the knowledge, sanction, sufferance or permission of the proprietor, occupier, inhabitant or person in charge, to impose on him a fine of five hundred dollars.
(5) This section shall not apply to such districts or areas as the Governor in Council may direct by notification in the Gazette.
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13. Any person who without lawful authority or excuse discharges any cannon or firearm within two hundred yards of any dwellinghouse or any motor road to the annoyance of any inhabitant or passer-by, and who, after being warned of such annoyance, again so discharges any such weapon shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars.
14. Any person who---
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(a) knowingly takes in exchange from any seaman or other person, not being the owner or master of any vessel, anything belonging to any vessel or any part of the cargo of any such vessel, or any stores or articles in charge of the owner or master of any such vessel;
(b) for the purposes of protecting or preventing anything whatsoever from being lawfully seized on suspicion of its being stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained, or of preventing the same from being produced or made to serve as evidence concerning any felony or misdemeanor committed or supposed to have been committed frames or causes
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