A.D. 1900.]
ARMS AND AMMUNITION.
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ORDINANCE No. 2 OF 1900.
AN ORDINANCE to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the Carriage, Movement, and Possession of Arms and Ammunition.
[12th April, 1900.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
No. 9 of 1900, with Ordinance No. 35 of 1900 incorporated.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, 1900.
2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires,-
"Arms" include any cannon, gun, revolver, pistol, and any description of firearms, and any sword, cutlass, spear, pike, bayonet, dagger, fighting-iron, or other deadly weapon, also any part of any arms so defined:
"Vessel" includes any ship or boat or any other description of vessel used in navigation:
"Junk" includes "lorcha"
"Ammunition" means any shell, cartridge, cartridge case, bullet, shot, percussion cap, or priming cap, and also any article which may be declared, by any regulation made by the Governor-in-Council and published in The Gazette, to be ammunition:
"To carry," as applied to arms or ammunition, means to carry on person, but does not include the transport or conveyance of such arms or ammunition from one place to another in the Colony in the ordinary course of business for storage or other business purposes:
"To move" or "to remove," as applied to arms or ammunition, includes every kind of movement, transport, or conveyance of such arms and ammunition not included in the meaning of the expression "to carry":
"Importer" includes every person, whether a commission agent or otherwise, to whom, or to whose order, arms or ammunition landed in the Colony are or is consigned: Provided that this definition shall not apply in the case of arms or ammunition consigned to any officer in Her Majesty's service for the use of Her Majesty's Naval or Military Forces, Imperial or Colonial:
"Exempted person" means and includes any person in the Naval, Military, or Civil Services of the Crown, and any officer of any Foreign Government, and any officer or volunteer as defined by the
Repeated and substituted by Ord. 41/11, §2
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A.D. 1900.]
ARMS AND AMMUNITION.
[No. 2.
569
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ORDINANCE No. 2 OF 1900.
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AN ORDINANCE to consolidate and amend the Laws relating A.D. 1900.6/12
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to the Carriage, Movement, and Possession of Arms Ordinance and Ammunition.
[12th April, 1900.]
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and
consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
No. 9 of 1900, with Ordinance · No. 35 of 1900 incorporated.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Arms and Ammunition Short title. Ordinance, 1900.
2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires,-
"Arms" include any cannon, gun, revolver, pistol, and any de- scription of firearms, and any sword, cutlass, spear, pike, bayonet, dagger, fighting-iron, or other deadly weapon, also any part of any arms so defined :
Vessel" includes any ship or boat or any other description of vessel used in navigation:
"Junk " includes "lorcha "
“Ammunition " means any shell, cartridge, cartridge case, bullet, shot, percussion cap, or priming cap, and also any article which may
Interpretation of terms.
be declared, by any regulation made by the Governor-in-Council .370 = 49 1/22/11 and published in The Gazette, to be ammunition:
the
“To carry," as applied to arms or ammunition, means to carry on person, but does not include the transport or conveyance of such arms or ammunition from one place to another in the Colony in the ordinary course of business for storage or other business purposes: “To move” or “to remove," as applied to arms or ammunition,. includes every kind of movement, transport, or conveyance of such:- arms and ammunition not included in the meaning of the expression "to carry
"Importer" includes every person, whether a commission agent or otherwise, to whom, or to whose order, arms or ammunition landed in the Colony are or is consigned: Provided that this definition shall not apply in the case of arms or ammunition consigned to any officer in Her Majesty's service for the use of Her Majesty's Naval or Military Forces, Imperial or Colonial :
Exempted person means and includes any person in the Naval, Military, or Civil Services of the Crown, and any officer of any Foreign Government, and any officer or volunteer as defined by the
Repeated Hubstituted
by Ord. 41/11. §2
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