HONG KONG.
No. 27 or 1947.
I assent.
An Ordinance to
Ordinance, 1938.
Masall
Officer Administering the Government,
14th June, 1947.
amend the Armus and Ammunition
[14th June, 1947.]
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:---
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Arong and Ammunition Amendment Ordinance, 1947.
2. (1) In this Ordinance "principal Ordinance" means the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, 1933, as amended by the Arms and Ammunition Amendment Ordinance, 1946.
(3) The principal Ordinance as amended by this Ordinance may be citedl together as the Arms and Ammunition. Ordinance, 1989-1947.
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3. Section 4 of the principal Ordinance is hereby Amendment amended by substituting in sub-section (5) thereof the figures "1899" for the figures "1880”.
4. The following smendments are bereby made to section 20A of the principal Ordinance :
(a) the words "a firearm or' are substituted for the word "an" in line two of sub-section (1) and for the word *any** in line three of sub-section (3);
(b) the following is substituted for the last three lines of sub-section (8) :-
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means any thing, other thun an arm within the meaning of section 2 of the Arms and Ammunition Ordinarice, 1933, which if observed in daylight has the appearance of being a lethal barrelled weapon of any description."
(c) the following is substitute for the marginal note to the said section :--
Penalty for use and possession of firearms and imitation firearms in certain cases."
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 13th day of June, 1947.
Alastair Rodel
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
Ord. No. 2 of 1933,
Amendment
of 1.29A of Ord. No. 2
of 1933.