1901_NAVAL_STORES_ORDINANCE__(HONGKONG)__1875 — Page 2

.1875.

A.D. 1875.]

NAVAL STORES.

[No. 4.

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selling old metal, scrap metal, broken metal, or partly manufac- tured metal goods, or defaced or old metal goods, and whether such person deals in such articles only or together with second hand goods or marine stores; and "Old Metal" means the said articles: "In Her Majesty's Service," when applied to persons, applies also to persons in the employment of the Admiralty:

"Stores" include all goods and chattels and any single store or article.

3. No person shall, after the commencement of this Ordinance, use or exercise the trade or business of a dealer in marine stores, or a dealer in old metals, unless he is the holder of a licence for that purpose.

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4. Every such licence shall be granted by and held at the discretion of the Governor, on such conditions as to fees and subject to such re- gulations as may from time to time be prescribed by the Governor-in- Council.

5. Every dealer in marine stores to whom a licence is granted shall keep a book or books fairly written, and shall enter therein an account of all such marine stores or old metal as he may from time to time become possessed of, stating in respect of each article the time at which and the person from whom he purchased or received the same, adding, in the case of every such last-mentioned person, a description of his business and place of abode.

6. Every person to whom such licence is granted shall, whenever thereunto required by any Superintendent or Inspector of Police or by any other member of the Police Force, bearing a written order in that behalf under the hand of a Superintendent, produce for the inspection of the party so requiring him all or any marine stores or old metal in his possession or subject to his control and all books and papers relating to the same.

Prohibition of person dealing in marine stores, etc., without

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licence. ce. J. J.27-10-05 Granting and conditions of Vide Regus:

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7. Every person who acts in contravention of the provisions contained Punishment in

any of the sections 3, 5, and 6, or of any regulation made under section for contra- 4, shall, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a Ordinance, penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding three months.

8.—(1.) The marks described in the Schedule to this Ordinance may be applied in or on stores therein described to denote Her Majesty's property in stores so marked.

Appropria- tion of marks

for Her Majesty's stores.

(2.) It shall be lawful for the Admiralty, their contractors, officers, Schedule. and workmen, to apply the said marks, or any of them, in or on any such stores as are described in the said Schedule.

(3.) Every person who, without lawful authority, (the proof whereof

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