CO129-556-13 Traffic in arms to China 6-1-1936 - 13-1-1937 — Page 4

covers ammunition (which is not defined),

empty shells could hardly be regarded as

ammunition.

J. H. apsor

Library (Legal)

5.3.36.

The Board of Trade concur in the action

suggested in the second paragraph of (4). That

action was based on such information as was

available in the F.0. as regards the powers of the

Hong Kong Government in this matter, and it is

necessary to examine this a little more closely

before we can send instructions to Hong Kong.

2 It appears that the Colonial Government

has powers to detain misdescribed goods under the

provisions of the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance,

No. 2 of 1933. Section 4() appears to imply that

the restrictions under that Ordinance should apply

to ammunition consigned to some place outside the

Colony, provided that it is duly and correctly

entered in the manifest; i.e., an incorrect

entry in the manifest would disqualify arms so

consigned from this exemption. Further, under

paragraph 19 it would appear that the nature of all

consignments of arms in the Colony, whether or not

they may be entitled to "in transit" status,

should be clearly marked on the boxes - a provision

plainly incompatible with the mis description on

the manifest.

3 The Dangerous Goods Ordinance No.1 of

1873 does not, as it stands, cover arms. However,

Section 5(1)(a)

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