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tion without permit. First Schedule: Form No. 3.

$40/010.41/11

Penalty for

arms or

ammunition found on

vessel with- out licence.

Repealing

section not printed.

Arrest with- Sont warrant

of person carrying

No. 2.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1900)

of export and (where an export permit is required) under an export permit, without having first obtained a removal permit, in the Form No. 3 in the First Schedule to this Ordinance, from the Captain Super intendent of Police: Provided that this prohibition shall not apply to arms or ammunition belonging to or for the use of Her Majesty's Forces or belonging to the Colonial Government or to arms or ammuni- tion which are the private property of an exempted person or person licensed to possess the same and for his own personal use; but the onus of proving that such arms or ammunition are or is his private property and for his own personal use shall lie on such person: Provided, also, that this prohibition shall not apply to arms or ammunition consigned to a port other than this Colony and in transitu and on board of any vessel as bonâ fide cargo and which have been entered on the manifest of such vessel, or to arms or ammunition so consigned in course of transshipment in unbroken packages from one vessel to another, if notice of such trans shipment has been given to the Captain Superintendent of Police, or to ammunition which, having been imported into the Colony, is in the course of transshipment to the Government Gunpowder Depôt, or arms or ammunition which are actually on board of any vessel and in respect of which a licence to "

carry or to «

possess is not required by section 4.

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8. Subject to the provisos contained in section 4, if any arms or am munition are or is found on board of any steam-launch or on board of any junk or other Chinese vessel, and the person in charge, or appearing or acting as the master or as in charge, of such launch, junk, or vessel does not produce a valid authority under this Ordinance or any Ordinance hereby repealed authorizing him or some other person or persons on board of such launch, junk, or vessel to carry or have in his possession such arms or ammunition, such person and all other persons, not being exempted persons, on board of such launch, junk, or vessel shall be deemed to have possession of such arms or ammunition in contravention of this Ordinance, and shall be liable to the punishment prescribed by section 28: Provided that every person proceeded against under thi section shall be a competent but not compellable witness, and that no person shall be liable to any punishment under this section if it is proved, to the satisfaction of the Magistrate, that he was not the person in charge, but was on board as a bona fide passenger or member of the crew and was neither a party to nor aware of the presence of any such arms or ammunition on board.

9. Any person carrying or having in his possession or moving reasonably suspected of carrying or having in his possession or moving any arms or ammunition in contravention of this Ordinance may