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Marks in Schedule appro priated
for public atores.
Oblitera- tion
referred to as His Majesty's stores. The Secretary of State, Admiralty, public department, office, or person having the care, superintendence, or control of such stores, are hereinafter in this Ordinance included in the expression "public department".
4. The marks described in the Schedule to this Ordinance may be applied in or on stores therein described in order to denote His 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 on summary conviction be liable to imprisonment for two years.
5. If any person with intent to conceal His Majesty's with intent property in any stores takes out, destroys, or obliterates, wholly or to conceal in part, any such mark as aforesaid, or any mark whatsoever denoting the property of His Majesty in any stores, he shall be guilty of felony, and on conviction thereof on indictment shall be able to imprisonment for seven years.
ment,
Power to stag suspected boats,
person, etc.
Unlawful possession of Bis
Majesty's stores.
Prohibi- tion of aweeping. etc. near
6. A police officer may stop search and derain any vessel boat or vehicle in which there is reason to suspect that any of His Majesty's stores stolen or unlawfully obtained may be found or any person reasonably suspected of having or conveying in any manner any of His Majesty's stores stolen or unlawfully obtained.
7.
If any person is brought before a magistrate charged with conveying or with having in his possession or keeping any of His Majesty's stores reasonably suspected of being stolen or unlawfully obtained, and does not give an account to the satis- faction of the court how he came by the same, he shall be deemed guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for three months.
8. It shall not be lawful for any person, without permission in writing from the Director of Marine, or from some person authorized by the Director of Marine in that behalf (proof of which permission shall lie on the party accused), to gather or search for ranges, etc. stores, or to creep, sweep, or dredge in the sea or any tidal water, within one hundred yards from any vessel belonging to His
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Majesty or in His Majesty's service, or from any mooring place or anchoring place appropriated to such vessels, or from any moorings belonging to His Majesty, or from any of His Majesty's wharves, or dock, victualling, or steam factory yards, or from any aerodrome used by the Royal Air Force or the Hong Kong Defence Force, or within one thousand yards from any battery or fort or other place used for firing practice by any of the armed forces of His Majesty or by the Hong Kong Defence Force.
Any person contravening the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary con- viction to a fine of five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for three months.
8. If stores are found in the possession or keeping of a Penalty person being in His Majesty's service, or in the service of a public dealer, department, or being a dealer in marine stores or in old metals, or in
etc., found
possession
a pawnbroker (within the meaning of any enactments for the time of stores. in force relating to such dealers or to pawnbrokers), and he is and not,
accounting taken or summoned before a magistrate, and the magistrate sees for them. reasonable grounds for believing the stores found to be or to have been His Majesty's property, then if such person does not satisfy the magistrate that he came lawfully hy the stores so found, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars.
10. For the purposes of this Ordinance stores shall be Criminal
explained.
deemed to be in the possession or keeping of any person if he possession knowingly has them in the actual possession or keeping of any other person, or in any house, building, lodging, apartment, field, or place, open or enclosed, whether occupied by himself or not, and whether the same are so had for his own use or benefit or for the use or benefit of another.
11. This Ordinance shall apply to stores bearing any such mark or part of a mark as is in this Ordinance mentioned whether applied before or after the passing of this Ordinance.
Ordinance
to apply to stores marked before its
passing.
12. Sections 13 and 14 of the Marine Stores Protection Repeal. Ordinance, 1919, and the Schedule to the said Ordinance are Ordinance hereby repealed.
No. 18 of 1919.