tx d'qs
Licence to
carry or possess arms and anmaui- tion.
4. The Captain Superintendent of Police may from time to time in iris discretion grant to any person a licence either to carry arms and ammunition, or to have arms and am- unition in his "possession, or to do both, subject to such conditions as the Captain Superintendent of Police may deem fit. Unless in any particular case the Captain Super- intendent of Police shall otherwise direct, such licence shall be issued for a limited period only, shall be mudo out in the name of the grautee, shall bear a number and the dates of issue and expiry, shall not be transferable, and shall specify the arms and ammunition which it covers :
Provided, nevertheless, that an appeal shall lie, from any refusal by the Captain Superintendent of Police to grant any licence under this section, to the Governor-in-Council who shall have power to confirm or reverse such refusal. No person to 5. No person, who has not a licence from the Captain carry or pos- Superintendent of Police for the purpose, shall either carry ammunition any arms or ammunition or have any arms or ammunition in his possession in this Colony: Provided that this pro- hibition shall not extend to any exempted person, as de- fiued by this Ordinance:
HORS STMS or
without a licence.
Opal Livener to he
presented for
GEIAS OF 2011- manition
sold for use within the
Colony.
Export
permit to be obtained for
Arms, etc. cold for
export.
Exporter of
ms or am- munition to
btain mate's receipt.
Provided also that this prohibition shall not apply so as to prevent the owner or master of any vessel from having on board such arms and amagnition as are reasonably neces- sary for the protection of such vessel, and provided that in the case of every junk or other Chinese vessel such arms and ammunition shall be described and enumerated in the licence or clearance issued by the Harbour Master: Provided also that this prohibition shall not apply to arms or ammunition consigned to a port other than Hongkong and in transitu and on board of any vessel as bona fide cargo and which have been entered upon the manifest of such vessel, or to arms or ammunition so consigned in course of tranship- ment in unbroken packages from one vessel to another if notice of such transhipment has been sent to the Captain Superintendent of Police or to ammuuition whichi having been imported into the Colony is in the course of tranship- ment to the Government Gunpowder Depôt, or which is. being exported from the Colony direct from such Depôt under a delivery order issued by the Harbour Master, or to arins and ammunition for the use of Her Majesty's Forces. 6. 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 ainmunition, or unless he is an ex- empted persou, or
(b) for export from the Colony unless the vendor has obtained from the Captain Superintendent of Police an export permit which may be in the form given in the schedule hereto nexed market B, and shall be made out in Chinese as well as in English:
Pro-
vided, nevertheless, that no export permit shall be required in respect of any ammunition which is being exported from the Colony direct from the Govern- meut Depôt under a delivery order issued by the Harbour Master.
Such export permit or such delivery ouder when granted shall be desined equivalent to the licence of the Captain Superintendent of Police to carry or possoss arms or am- munition, but in the ease of an export permit it shall only operate as such a licence up to the time named in sucks permit for the return of such permit.
An application for such permit shall be in the form given in the schelale hereto annexed marked A, and shall he made out in Chinese as well as in English in cases where the applicant is a Chinaman, and shall be sigued by the vendor of the said arms or ammunition and filed by him with the Captain Superintendent of Police. No fee shall be payable in respect of filing such application or granting such permit.
7. Every person who obtains an export permit for any arms or ammunition auder this Ordinance, shall, when the whole of the arts or ammunition or arms and munition, specified in such export permit, 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 in such permit, and shali return such receipt, together with the export persnit, to the porsou and at the time and pince named in such permit.
8. No person shall move, or cause to be moved, suy No arms or arms or ammunition, within the Colony or the waters ammunition thereof, except for the purpose of export and (where an to be moved
permit. export permit is required) wider an export permit, without without Javing first obtained a removal permit, in the form of Schedule Choreto, from the Captain Superintendent of Police:
Provided that this prohibition shall not apply to arms or ammunition belonging to, or for the use of, Her Majesty's Forces, or belonging to the Colonial Goverment, or to arms or ammunition which are the private property of an exempted person or person licensed to possess the same and For his own personal use; but the onus of proving that sneh arms or ammunition are his private property and for his own personal use shall lie on such person:
Provided also, that this prohibition shall not apply to artas or ammunition consiguel to a port other than Hong kong and in transitu and on board of any vessel as bonâ fide cargo, and which have been entered on the manifest of such vessel, or to arms or auumuation, so ensigned, în course of transhipment in unbroken packages from one „vessel to another, if notice of such traushipment has been given to the Captain Superintendent of Police, or to am- munition which, having been imported into the Colony, is in the course of transhipment to the Government Gun- powder Depôt, or to arms or ammunition which are actually on board of any vessel and in respect of which a licence to "carry" or to "possess," is not required by section 5.
8. Subject to the provisos contained in section 5 of this Penalty for Ordinance, if any arms or nummunition are found on board armis, etc.
vessel with- of any steam-hummel, or ou bound of any junk or other fraud on Chinese vessel, and the person in charge, or appearing ontleenre.
or acting as the master or as in charge of such launch, junk or vessel does not produce a valid authority under this Ordinance or any Ordinance hereby repealed authorizing lim or some other person or persons on board of such latuck, junk or vessel to curry or have in his posses sion such arms or ammunition, such person and all other persons, not being exempted persons, on board of such launch, junk or vessel shall be deemed to have possession of such arms or ammunition in contravention of This Ordi- nance, and shall be liable to the punishment proscribed by section 28 of this Ordinance.
10. Any person carrying or having in his possession or Police mar moving or reasonably suspected of carrying of having in his arrest with- possession or moving any arms or ammunition in contra- out warrant either carry- Yoution of this Ordinance may be arrested without a war- any person
ing arms, rant by any Police Officer or Constable, and shall be conveyed as soon as may be to a Police Station to be etc. or having dealt with according to low.
them in his
possession,
11.-1.) Every importer of, dealer in, or vendor of arms Importers. or ammunition shall take out a licence annually from the etc. to take Captain Saperintendent of Police and shall register his out licencn name and place of business for the time being and any and register. gotown, warehouse, or other place in which he stores or intends to store arms or ammunition, at the Office of the Captain Superintendent of Police. Any importer of, dealer in, or vendor of arms or ammunition not inking out such licouce as aforesail or not registering as aforesaid shall be liable, on summary couvietion, to a fiue not exceeding one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a period not exceed- ing three months, with or without bard inbour.
(2.) From and after the commencement of this Ordinance Fee payable. the fee payable for any such licence as aforesaid shall
be that mentioned in the Schedule hereto aunexed marked
D; but to person, who at the date of the commencement of this Ordinance possesses a valid and expired licence for importing or dealing in arms, need take out a new licence under this Ordinance until the expiration of his current licence,
licence.
(3.) It shall, however, be lawful for the Captain Superiu- Power to tendent of Police, for any cause which he any think fit, to refuse, ami refuse to grant a licence to import or deal ni or sell armas cancel, and maminition or arms only, or ammunition only, to any applicant for a licence, and it shall also be lawini for the Captain Superintendent of Police to cancel any such licence for any cause which he may think fit, nod, after any such cancellation, it shall not be lawful, unless such cancellation is reversed, for the person uated in such licence to import or deal in or sell arms or ammunition: Provided, never-
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