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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 20, 1929. 669

3. Paragraph (b) of section 2 of the Arms and Ammu- Amendment ution Ordinance, 1900, is amended by the addition of the of Ordinance

No. 2 of ollowing sub-paragraph at the end thereof :-

1900, s. 2 (7).

(v) every gun, pistol, or other propelling or releasing instrument or mechanism, from or by which any shell, cartridge, bomb, grenade, or projectile, containing any gas of chemical, could be discharged.

4. Paragraph (d) of section 2 of the Arms and Am- Repeal of munition Ordinance, 1900, is repealed and the following Ordinance paragraph is substituted therefor :-

Exempted person.

(4) "Exempted person

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means

No. 2 of 1900, s. 2 (d), and substitu-

tion of new

() every person in the naval, military, paragraph, air, volunteer and police forces, district watchmen, members of the volunteer reserve, and members of the police reserve, in respect of arms and ammunition used by them solely in connection with their

duties;

(ii) commissioned officers in the army, navy and air forces, and the consular representatives de carrière of any foreign

government;

(ii) public officers whose names are approved by the Governor and recorded in a list kept at the Colonial Secretary's Office:

(iv) any person to whom the luspector General of Police shall have issued, in his discretion, a written letter of exemp- tiou, any such exemption being confined in the discretion of the Inspector General of Police to any particular weapons or ammunition mentioned therein.

5. Section 4 of the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, Repeal of 1900, is repealed and the following section is substituted Ordinance therefor :-

No. 2 of 1900, s. 4, Prohibition 4. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub- and substitu- of carrying sections (2) to (11) inclusive, no person shall, tion of new or possessing except under and in accordance with a licence section. ammunition issued for the purpose under this Ordinance, without a carry or have in his possession or under his

arins or

licence.

control any arms or ammunition.

(2) Sub-section (1) shall not apply to any exempted person.

(3) Sub-section (1) shall not apply to any arms or ammunition which are in the posses- sion of His Majesty's Government or of the Government of Hong Kong, or to any arms or amumuition which are the property of His Majesty's Government or of the Government of Hong Kong, and which are duly in the possession or under the control of some person on behalf of His Majesty's Government or of the Government of Hong Kong with the knowledge and consent of His Majesty's Government or of the Government of Hong Kong, as the case may be.

(4) Sub-section (1) shall not apply to any arms or ammunition on board any ship which in the opinion of the Governor, as certified by the Colonial Secretary, is a ship of war of any foreign state.

(5) Sub-section (1) shall not apply to any arms or ammunition consigned to some place outside the Colony and in transitu on any vessel as bonâ fide cargo and entered on the manifest.

(6) Sub-section (1) shall not apply to any arms or ammunition in course of transhipment in unbroken packages from one vessel to another, if notice of such transhipment shail have been given to the Inspector Genera! of Police at a reasonable time before such transhipment.

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