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Power to
Governor by
to prohibit exportation of military stores.
No. 1 of 1862. MILITARY STORES (EXPORTATION).
2.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor with the advice of the Executive Council, by proclamation, to prohibit, for such period as may be therein mentioned, either to be exported from the Colony or to be carried coastwise within the Colony, arms, ammunition, and gunpowder, military and naval stores, and any articles which the Governor may judge capable of being converted into or made useful in increasing the quantity of military or naval stores, provisions, or any sort of victual which may be used as food by man, or any or either of such arms, ammunition, gunpowder, stores, goods, or articles respectively.
Power to prohibit exportation
of arms, etc.,
to particular place.
[63 & 64 Vict.
c. 44, s. 1.]
(2) In case any such arms, ammunition, gunpowder, stores, goods, or articles which have been so prohibited are or is exported from the Colony or are or is carried coastwise, or are or is waterborne to be so exported or carried, they or it shall be forfeited, and forthwith it shall be the duty of the Harbour Master by warrant under his hand and seal, on his own view or on an information made upon oath before a magistrate, to cause all such goods and articles so hereinbefore declared forfeited to be seized, and to detain the same to be disposed of as the Governor may, by order under his hand and seal, direct.
3-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, by proclamation, to prohibit, for such period as may be therein mentioned, the exportation of all or any of the following articles, namely: arms, ammunition, military and naval stores, and any article which the Governor shall judge capable of being converted into or made useful in increasing the quantity of arms, ammunition, or military or naval stores, to any country or place therein named, whenever the Governor with the advice aforesaid shall judge such prohibition to be expedient in order to prevent such arms, ammunition, or military or naval stores, being used against His Majesty's subjects or forces, or which may be engaged in or against any forces engaged or which military or naval operations in cooperation with His Majesty's forces.
(2) In case any such arms, ammunition, stores, goods, or articles which have been so prohibited are or is exported to the country or place named in any such proclamation, or are or is waterborne to be so exported, they or it shall be for-
* As amended by No. 19 of 1914 and Law Am. Ord., 1923,