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Conditions to be observed on sale of arms or

ammunition for use in the

Colony or

for export.

First Schedule, Forms Nos. 1, 2, 3.

No. 2 of 1900.

ARMS AND AMMUNITION.

such arms and ammunition shall be described and enumerated in the licence or clearance: nor shall it apply to arms or ammunition consigned to a port not in the Colony and in transitu on any vessel as bona fide cargo and entered on the manifest; or in course of transhipment in unbroken packages from one vessel to another, if notice of such transhipment has been sent to the Captain Superintendent of Police: nor to ammunition which, having been imported is in course of transhipment to the Government Gunpowder Depôt or is being exported direct from such Depôt: nor to arms and ammunition for the use of His Majesty's forces: Provided that where arms or ammunition, the property of a licensed or exempted person, are carried by or are found in the possession of his agent or servant, under bonâ fide instructions so to carry or possess the same for him and on his behalf temporarily for any lawful purpose, such carriage, or possession shall be deemed carriage or possession by the licensed or exempted person.

5. (1) No arms or ammunition shall be sold to any person-

(a) for use within the Colony, unless the purchaser presents, at or before the time of purchase, a valid licence either to carry or to have in his possession such arms or ammunition, together with a removal permit in Form No. 3 in the First Schedule, or unless he is an exempted person; or

(b) for export, unless the vendor has obtained from the Captain Superintendent of Police an export permit, which may be in Form No. 2 in the First Schedule, and shall be made out in Chinese as well as in English: Provided, nevertheless, that no export permit shall be required in respect of any ammunition which is being exported direct from the Government Gunpowder Depôt under a delivery order issued by the Harbour Master.

(2) Such export permit or such delivery order, when granted, shall be deemed equivalent to a licence to carry or possess arms or ammunition, but an export permit shall only operate as such a licence up to the time named in such permit for the return thereof.

* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.