ORDINANCE No. 9 OF 1875.
Naval Stores.
1983
dealer &c., found in possession of
accounting for them.
10. If stores are found in the possession or keeping of a person being in Her Majesty's service, or in the service of the Admiralty, or being a dealer in marine stores, or in old metals, or a pawnbroker (within the meaning of any enactments for the time being in force relating to such dealers, or to pawnbrokers), and he is taken or summoned before a Magistrate, and the Magistrate sees reasonable grounds for believing the stores found to be or to have been Her Majesty's property, then if such person does not satisfy the Magistrate that he came lawfully by the stores found, he shall be liable, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
For the purposes of this section, stores shall be deemed to be in the possession or keeping of any person, if he 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 inclosed, 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.
No unauthorized person to creep, sweep, &c., for stores within 100 yards of any of Her Majesty's
11. It shall not be lawful for any person, without permission in writing from the Admiralty, or from some person authorized by the Admiralty in that behalf (proof of which permission shall lie on the party accused), to gather or search for stores, or to creep, sweep, or dredge, in the harbour of Victoria within one hundred yards from any vessel belonging to Her Majesty, or in Her Majesty's service, or from any mooring place or anchoring place appropriated to such vessels, or from any moorings belonging to Her Majesty, or from any of Her Majesty's wharves, or dock, victualling, or steam factory yards.
If any person acts in contravention of this provision, he shall be liable, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour.
Sections 81, 82, 83, 86, 88, 90 to 99 of Ordinance No. 7 of 1865,
with this Ordinance.
12. The following sections of Ordinance No. 7 of 1865 being "An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the Enactments in force in this Colony relating to Larceny and other similar Offences," shall be incorporated with this Ordinance, and shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be read as if they were here re-enacted, namely, sections 81 to 83, 86, 88, and 90 to 99 all inclusive; and for this purpose the expression "this Ordinance," when used in the said incorporated sections, shall be taken to include the present Ordinance.
ORDINANCE No. 9 OF 1875.
Naval Stores.
1983
dealer &c., found in possession of
accounting for them.
10. If stores are found in the possession or keeping of a person Penalty on being in Her Majesty's service, or in the service of the Admiralty, or being a dealer in marine stores, or in old metals, or a pawnbroker (within stores, and not the meaning of any enactments for the time being in force relating to such dealers, or to pawnbrokers), and he is taken or summoned before a Magistrate, and the Magistrate sees reasonable grounds for believing the stores found to be or to have been Her Majesty's property, then if such person does not satisfy the Magistrate that he came lawfully by the stores found, he shall be liable, on summary conviction before a Magis- trate, to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
For the purposes of this section, stores shall be deemed to be in the possession or keeping of any person, if he 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 inclosed, 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.
No unauthor- ized person to creep, sweep, &c., for stores within 100 yards of any of Her Majesty's
11. It shall not be lawful for any person, without permission in writing from the Admiralty, or from some person authorized by the Admiralty in that behalf (proof of which permission shall lie on the party accused), to gather or search for stores, or to creep, sweep, or dredge, in the harbour of Victoria within one hundred yards from any vessel belong vessels, &c. ing to Her Majesty, or in Her Majesty's service, or from any mooring place or anchoring place appropriated to such vessels, or from any moorings belonging to Her Majesty, or from any of Her Majesty's wharves, or dock, victualling, or steam factory yards.
If any person acts in contravention of this provision, he shall be liable, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or to be imprisoned for any term not. exceeding three months, with or without hard labour.
Sections 81, 82, 83, 86, 88, 90 to 99 of Ordinance No. 7 of 1865,
with this Ordinance.
12. The following sections of Ordinance No. 7 of 1865 being "An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the Enactments in force in this Colony relating to Larceny and other similar Offences," shall be incor- porated with this Ordinance, and shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, incorporated be read as if they were here re-enacted, namely, sections 81 to 83, 86, 88, and 90 to 99 all inclusive; and for this purpose the expression "this Ordinance," when used in the said incorporated sections, shall be taken to include the present Ordinance.
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