Model Ordinance to carry out the General Act of the Brussels
Miscellaneous, No. 87.
Conference.
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Reference :-
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of the General Act of the Brussels Conference, dated the 2nd of July 1890:
Be it enacted by the Governor of the Colony of consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows; viz. :-
AN ORDINANCE to regulate the Importation into and the Storage and Disposal Title.
of Firearms, Ammunition, and Gunpowder, in the Colony of
WHEREAS the Colony of
is within the zone specified in the eighth Article Enacting
Clause,
with the advice and
Imported
1. All firearms, ammunition, and gunpowder imported into the Colony of shall be deposited at the cost, risk, and peril of the person or persons importing the to be same in such public warehouse or warehouses as shall be appointed by the Governor deposited by Proclamation for that purpose.
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2. It shall not be lawful to introduce into the Colony by land any firearms, ammuni- Introduction tion, or gunpowder from neighbouring countries, but the Governor may, on special by land
prohibited, request, grant licenses for the introduction by land, of specified firearms, ammunition, or except upon gunpowder:-
special 1. To persons affording sufficient guarantees that the firearms, ammunition, or license.
gunpowder in question will not be given, assigned, or sold to third persons.
2. To travellers provided with a declaration of their Government stating that the firearms, ammunition, or gunpowder are destined exclusively for their personal
defence.
If such firearms, ammunition, or gunpowder are not exported from the Colony within one week after reaching the coast, they shall be deposited in a public warehouse as prescribed in the preceding section, and be subject to all the provisions of this Ordinance.
contraven-
3. Any person contravening the provisions of either of the two preceding sections Penalty for shall, on summary conviction before the chief magistrate or two justices of the peace tion. (who may order the firearms, ammunition, or gunpowder to be forfeited to Her Majesty), be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any period not exceeding twelve calendar months.
withdrawn
4. No firearms, ammunition, or gunpowder shall be withdrawn from a public ware- Firearms, house except on the written authority of the Governor. Any person delivering or &c., not to be withdrawing any firearms or ammunition from a public warehouse without the proper without authority, shall be liable, on conviction before the chief magistrate or two justices of Governor's
peace, to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds or to imprisonment, with or authority. without hard labour, for a period not exceeding twelve calendar months.
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flint-look guns
5. The Governor shall not authorise the withdrawal for sale from a public ware- drawal for house, of any firearms or ammunition other than flint-lock guns with unrified barrels, ale except and common gunpowder, known as trade powder, and the Governor shall, in authorising and trade any such withdrawal, specify the number of guns and the quantity of gunpowder to powders. be withdrawn, and also the store or depôt within the Colony in which such flint-lock Green guns and such common gunpowder may be kept, and the districts or regions in which where sunition of the same may be sold.
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Any person or persons so authorised to withdraw flint-lock guns or common gun- distric powder out of any public warehouse, shall at the end of every six months, commencing List of from the date of such authority, submit to the Governor detailed lists indicating arma, &c., the destinations of the firearms and gunpowder sold, as well as the quantities still to be subm remaining in his store.
to Governor every six
months. Penalties for
certain
Whosoever shall remove from a public warehouse for sale any firearms or ammunition other than flint-lock guns or common gunpowder, or shall, without the proper authority, remove any such firearms or ammunition as under this section may be authorised to be offences.
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