1984 Ed.]
Public Stores
[CAP. 144
1
CHAPTER 144
PUBLIC STORES
To make provision for the protection of Public Stores.
[1 September 1950.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Stores Ordinance.
2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires-
"stores" includes all goods and chattels, and any single store or article.
3. This Ordinance shall apply to all stores under the care, superintendence, or control of a Secretary of State or the Admiralty, or any public department or office, or of any person in the service of Her Majesty, and such stores are in this Ordinance referred to as Her Majesty's stores. The Secretary of State, Admiralty, public department, office, or person having the care, superintendence, or control of such stores, is hereinafter in this Ordinance included in the expression "public department".
4. The marks described in the Schedule may be applied in or on stores therein described in order to denote Her Majesty's property in stores so marked; and it shall be lawful for any public department, and the contractors, officers, and workmen of such department, to apply those marks, or any of them, in or on any such stores; and if any person without lawful authority (proof of which authority shall lie on the party accused) applies any of those marks in or on any such stores he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for 2 years.
5. If any person with intent to conceal Her Majesty's property in any stores takes out, destroys, or obliterates, wholly or in part, any such mark as aforesaid, or any mark whatsoever denoting the property of Her Majesty in any stores, he shall be guilty of felony, and on conviction thereof on indictment shall be liable to imprisonment for 7 years.
6. A police officer may stop, search, and detain any vessel, boat or vehicle in which there is reason to suspect that any of Her Majesty's stores stolen or unlawfully obtained may be found, or any person reasonably suspected of having or conveying in any manner any of Her Majesty's stores stolen or unlawfully obtained.
Originally 27 of 1950. (Cap. 144, 1950.)
L.N. 375/84.
Short title.
Interpretation.
38 & 39 Vict. c. 25. s. 2.
Stores to which the Ordinance applies.
38 & 39 Vict. c. 25. s. 3.
Marks in Schedule appropriated for public stores.
38 & 39 Vict. c. 25. s. 4.
Obliteration with intent to concealment.
38 & 39 Vict. c. 25. s. 5.
Power to stop suspected boats, persons, etc.
38 & 39 Vict. c. 25. s. 6.