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Amendment
of Ordinance
No. 2 of 1900, s. 2 (b).
Repeal of Ordinance
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3. Paragraph (4) of section 2 of the Arms and Ammu- nition Ordinance, 1900, is amended by the addition of the following sub-paragraph at the end thereof;-
(v) every gun, pistol, or other propelling or releasing instrument or mechanism, from or by which any shell, cartridge, bomb, grenade, or projectile, containing any gas or chemical, could be discharged.
4. Paragraph (d) of section 2 of the Auns and Am- munition Ordinance, 1900, is repealed and the following 1900, 9. 2 (d), paragraph is substituted therefor
No. 2 of
and substitu- Exempted
tion of new
person.
paragraph.
Repeal of Ordinance No. 2 of 1900, s. 4, and substitu- tion of new
section.
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(d) "Exempted person mestr
(1) every person in the nayal, military, air, volunteer and police forces, district watchmen, members of the volunteer reserve, and members of the police roservo, in respect of arms and ammunition used
by them solely in connection with their'
duties;
(*) commissioned officers in the army, navy and air forces, aud the consular representatives de carrière of any foreign government;
are
(iii) public officers whose names approved by the Governor and recorded in a list kept at the Colonial Secretary's Office;
(iv) any person to whom the Inspector General of Police shall have issued, in his discretion, a written letter of exemp- tion, any such exemption being confined in the discretion of the Inspector General
of Police to any particular weapons or ammunition mentioned therein.
5. Section 4 of the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, 1900, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :-
Prohibition 4.—(1) Subject to the provisions of sub- of carrying sectious (2) to (11) inclusive, no person shall, or possessing except under and in accordance with a licence
arma or
ammunition issued for the purpose under this Ordinance, without a
carry or have in his possession or under his licence.
control any arms or ammunition,
(2) Sub-section (1) shall not apply to any exempted person.
(3) Sub-section (1) shall not apply to any arms or ammunition which are in the posses- sion of His Majesty's Government or of the Government of Hong Kong, or to any arms or ammunition which are the property of Ilis Majesty's Government or of the Government of Hong Kong, and which are duly in the possession or under the control of some person on behalf of His Majesty's Government or of the Government of Hong Kong with the knowledge and consent of His Majesty's Government or of the Government of Hong Kong, as the case may be.
(4) Sub-section (1) shall not apply to any arms or ammunition on board any ship which in the opinion of the Governor, as certified by the Colonial Secretary, is a ship of war of any foreign state.
(5) Sub-section (1) shall not apply to any arms or ammunition consigned to some place outside the Colony and in transitu on any vessel ne bona fide cargo and entered on the manifest.
(6) Sub-section (1) shall not apply to any arms or ammunition in course of transhipment in unbroken packages from one vessel to another, if notice of such transhipment shall have been given to the luspector General of Police at a reasonable time before such transhipment.
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(7) Sub-section (1) shall not apply to any arms or ammunition which, having been im- ported, are in course of transhipment to the Government Gunpowder Depôt, or are being exported direct from the Government Gun- powder Depôt.
(8) Sub-section (1) shall not apply to any arms or ammunition on board any junk or other similar vessel, if such arms and ammuni- tion are described and enumerated in the licence or clearance of such junk or other similar vessel, and are reasonably necessary for the protection of such junk or other similar vessel.
(9) Sub-section (1) shall not apply so as to prevent the owner or master of any vessel, other than such vessels as are referred to in sub-section (8), from having on board such arms and aminunition ns are reasonably neces- sary for the protection of such vessel, but this exemption shall not apply in the case of any vessel (a) which regularly includes in its ports
of call any place on the east coast of Asin between Vladivostok and Singapore inclusive, or any place on any river flowing into the sea on the east coast of Asin between Vladivostok and Singapore, or any place in Formosa, aud (b) the usual extreme trading limits of which do not extend beyond the places specified
above.
(10) Where arms or ammunition, the pro- perty of a licensed or exempted person, are carried by or are found in the possession of his agent or servant, under bonâ fide instructions
so to carry or possess the same for him and on his behalf temporarily for any lawful purpose, such carriage, or possession shall be deemed curriage or possession by the licensed or exempted person.
(11) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to cxempt from the provisions of sub- section (1) the owner or muster of any vessel or class of vessel whatsoever in respect of arms aud ammunition which shall be on board such vessel aul shall be reasonably necessary for its protection.
6. Section 8 of the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, Amendment 1900, is amended by the substitution of the word "similar" of Ordinance for the word "Chinese" in the third line thereof.
No. 2 of 1900, s. 8.
7. The words "Captain Superintendent of Police", Alteration wherever they occur in the principal Ordinance, ure of title of deleted and the words "Inspector General of Police" Captain
substituted therefor.
are
Superinten- dent of Police.
S. Section 28 of the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, Amendment 1900, is amended by the deletion of the words or of a of Ordinance Deputy or Assistant Superintendent of Police" in the No. 2 of tenth and eleventh lines thereof.
1900, 6, 28.
9. The following section is inserted in the principal Insertion of Ordinance immediately after section 32 :--
Certain officers to
have the
new s. 33 in Ordinance 3. The Deputy Inspector General of No. 2 of Police, and the Divisional Superintendents, 1900. powers of the Superintendents, and Assistant Superinten- Inspector deuts, shall have all the powers conferred ou General of the Inspector Genoral of Police by or under Police. this Ordinance.
10. This Ordinance shall come into force on the 1st Commence- day of January, 1930,
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 19th day of December, 1929.
2.1.1
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
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