MARINE STORES PROTECTION.
No. 13 of 1919.
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9. No marine stores collector shall sell any marine stores of any kind in his possession without giving an account.
Prohibition of sale of marine stores by collector.
10.-(1) Every person conveying or having in his possession or keeping any manner of marine stores who does not give an account to the satisfaction of the magistrate as to how he came by the same shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.
(2) For the purposes of this section, marine stores shall be deemed to be in the possession or keeping of any person if he knowingly has them in the actual possession of himself or of any other person on any wharf or in any launch or in any junk, lighter, cargo boat, or sampan, or open boat of any description, or in any street, house, building, lodging, apartment, field, or place, open or enclosed, whether occupied by himself or not and whether the said stores are so possessed or kept either for his own use or benefit or for the use or benefit of another person.
11. It shall not be lawful for any person, without permission in writing from the Harbour Master, to dredge in the waters of the Colony between a line drawn from the westernmost point of the Island of Hongkong to the western side of Green Island and continued to the western point of Stonecutters Island and from thence to the Naval Torpedo Range at Laichikok, on the west, and the Lyemun Pass, on the east.
Unauthorised person not to sweep or dredge within certain limits.
12. Every person who acts in contravention of any of the provisions contained in sections 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 11, or of any regulation made under section 4, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.
Penalties.
13.-(1) The marks described in the Schedule may be applied in or on stores therein described to denote His Majesty's property in stores so marked.
Appropria-tion of marks for His Majesty's stores.
(2) Every person who without lawful authority applies any of the said marks in or on any such stores as are described in the said Schedule shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years.
Penalty for unlawful application of same.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
MARINE STORES PROTECTION.
No. 13 of 1919.
2519
9. No marine stores collector shall sell any marine stores Prohibition of any kind.
of sale of marine stores by collector.
in possession
not account-
*
10.-(1) Every person conveying or having in his posses- Penalty on sion or keeping any manner of marine stores who does not person found give an account to the satisfaction of the magistrate as to of marine how he came by the same shall upon summary conviction be stores, and liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars ing for them. or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months. (2) For the purposes of this section, marine stores shall be deemed to be in the possession or keeping of any person if he knowingly has them in the actual possession of himself or of any other person on any wharf or in any launch or in any junk, lighter, cargo boat, or sampan, or open boat of any description, or in any street, house, building, lodging, apart- ment, field, or place, open or inclosed, whether occupied by himself or not and whether the said stores are so possessed or kept either for his own use or benefit or for the use or benefit of another person.
to sweep
11. It shall not be lawful for any person, without permis- Unauthorised sion in writing from the Harbour Master, to dredge in the person not waters of the Colony between a line drawn from the western- or dredge most point of the Island of Hongkong to the western side of within certain Green Island and continued to the western point of Stone- cutters Island and from thence to the Naval Torpedo Range at Laichikok, on the west, and the Lye mun Pass, on the east.
limits.
12. Every person who acts in contravention of any of the Penalties. provisions contained in sections 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 11, or of any regulation made under section 4, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.
13.-(1) The marks described in the Schedule may be Appropria- applied in or on stores therein described to denote His tion of marks Majesty's property in stores so marked.
for His Majesty's
stores.
*
Schedule.
(2) Every person who without lawful authority applies any Penalty for of the said marks in or on any such stores as are described unlawful
application in the said Schedule shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and of same. shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding
two years.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
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