CO129-522-10 Arms and Ammunition Amendment Ordinance 1929 20-12-1929 - 29-5-1930 — Page 12

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care any firearms which they may possess, but others

may be more careless, and their firearms might be

stolen and might get into the hands of armed robbers

and other criminals. The new list of exempted persons

will be a very restricted one, except of course that

members of the naval, military, air, volunteer, police

and district watch services will be exempted in respect

of the arms and ammunition used by them in connection

with their duties. There will be power to grant

exemption to others, but this exemption can always be

limited to particular weapons or ammunition where that

is thought desirable.

5.

Section 5 of this Ordinance amends section 4 of

the principal Ordinance in order to carry out the same

policy of greater restriction in the number of persons

entitled to possess firearms. The section deals inter

alia with the question of firearms on board vessels.

The present general provision on this subject is that

the owner or master of any vessel may have on board

"such arms and ammunition as are reasonably necessary

for the protection of such vessel". Sub-section (9)

of the proposed new section 4 will take out of this

exemption vessels which regularly include in their ports

of call any place on the East Coast of Asia between

Vladivostok and Singapore, or any place on any river

flowing into the sea on the East Coast of Asia between

Vladivostok and Singapore, or any place in Formosa,

provided that the usual extreme trading limits of such

vessels do not extend beyond the places specified above.

Such vessels will not be allowed to carry arms while within

the waters of the Colony except under licence from the

Inspector General of Police, which is to be the new title