COPY.
Enclosure 3.
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Re
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April 11th, 1990.
Report on Ordinace No.9 of 1900.
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled.
"An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the law re-
lating to the carriage movement,and possession of
Arms and Ammunition".
and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is
not contrary to the Governor's Instructions.
The trade in arms and ammunition in this Colony has increased so much of late that it is thought desirable that it should be subjected to strict supervision, and the recent increase of armed robberies and piracies in the adjacent provinces of the Chinese Empire, to the detriment of oar trade, has demonstrated the necessity for such strict supervision.
The present Bill, therefore, while it practically re-enacts many of the provisions of Ordinances 8 and 14 of 1895, which it repeals, includes certain entirely new provisions (marked were in the margin) which will now be briefly discussed.
This Bill amends the existing law by rendering the pos- session of ammunition, as well as of arms, without a proper authority, illegal. (See clause 5.)
By clause 4 of this Bill the issue of, and conditions to be attached to, licences to carry arms are vested in the Captain Superintendent of Police instead of as heretofore in the Governor. See too clause 11 of the Bill which substitutes the Captain Superintendent of Police for the Registrar General in the case of licences to deal in arms and which gives power to the Captain Superintendent of Police (sub- ject to an appeal to the Governor-in-Council) to refuse to grant or to cancel a licence.
It