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Public Stores.

CHAPTER 144.

PUBLIC STORES.

To make provision for the protection of Public Stores.

[1st September, 1950.]

[CAP. 144

27 of 1950.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Stores Short title. Ordinance.

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In this Ordinance "stores" includes all goods and Interpretation. chattels, and any single store or article.

3. This Ordinance shall apply to all stores under the care, superintendence, or control of a Secretary of State or the Admiralty, or any public department or office, or of any person in the service of His Majesty, and such stores are in this Ordinance referred to as His Majesty's stores. The Secretary of State, Admiralty, public department, office, or person having the care, superintendence, or control of such stores, is hereinafter in this Ordinance included in the expression "public department".

or

Stores to Ordinance

which the

applies.

Schedule

for public

4. The marks described in the Schedule to this Marks in Ordinance may be applied in or on stores therein described appropriated in order to denote His Majesty's property in stores so stores. marked; and it shall be lawful for any public department, and the contractors, officers, and workmen of such depart- ment, to apply those marks, or any of them, in on any such stores; and if any person without lawful authority (proof of which authority shall lie on the party accused) applies any of those marks in or on any such stores he shall be guilty of an offence and shall on summary conviction be liable to imprisonment for two years.

5. if any person with intent to conceal His Majesty's property in any stores takes out, destroys, or obliterates, wholly or in part, any such mark as aforesaid, or any mark whatsoever denoting the property of His Majesty in any stores, he shall be guilty of felony, and on conviction thereof on indictment shall be liable to imprisonment for seven years.

Obliteration to conceal-

with intent

ment.

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