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CAP. 238}
Firearms and Ammunition
[1981 Ed.
(Cap. 59.)
1968 c. 27. s. 57(1).
(c) any portable device which is designed or adapted to stun or disable a person by means of an electric shock applied either with or without direct contact with that person;
(d) any gun, pistol or other propelling or releasing instrument from or by which a projectile containing any gas or chemical could be discharged;
(e) any weapon for the discharge of any noxious liquid, gas, powder or other similar thing (including an aerosol containing any noxious liquid, gas, powder or other similar thing which is not in general trade or domestic use in aerosol form);
(f) any harpoon or spear gun, however powered;
(g) any other thing declared by the Governor in Council in regulations made under section 52 to be within the definition of "arms" for the purpose of this Ordinance;
(h) a component part used or intended to be used for the discharge of a missile from any of the arms coming within the foregoing paragraphs, and any accessory to such arms designed or adapted to diminish the noise or flash caused by firing the same,
but does not include--
(i) any "cartridge-operated fixing tool" as defined in regulations relating thereto made under the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance:
(ii) any slingshot, catapult, bow or other similar weapon, unless the same is included by virtue of regulations referred to in paragraph (g);
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Police and, in relation to any particular power, function or duty of the Commissioner under this Ordinance, means a person having authority pursuant to section 50 to exercise or perform it; "deal in" means-
(a) to manufacture, store, sell, let on hire, part with possession of, supply, import, procure, purchase, take on hire, take possession of, transport, repair, test, prove or to offer to do any of the foregoing;
(b) to expose for sale or hire or to have in possession for storage, sale, hire, supply, transport, repairing, testing or proving;
"dealer" means a person who by way of trade or business deals in arms or ammunition but does not include any person referred to in section 3;
"dealer's licence" means a licence granted under section 27(3); "firearm" means a lethal barrelled weapon of any description from which any shot, bullet or missile can be discharged;
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