1950_PUBLIC_STORES_ORDINANCE — Page 2

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Power to stop suspected boats,

person, etc.

Unlawful possession of His Majesty's stores.

Prohibition

of sweeping, etc. near dockyards, artillery ranges, etc.

Penalty

on dealer.

possession

of stores,

Public Stores.

6. A police officer may stop search and detain any vessel boat or vehicle in which there is reason to suspect that any of His Majesty's stores stolen or unlawfully obtained may be found or any person reasonably suspected of having or conveying in any manner any of His Majesty's stores stolen or unlawfully obtained.

7. If any person is brought before a magistrate charged with conveying or with having in his possession or keeping any of His Majesty's stores reasonably suspected of being stolen or unlawfully obtained, and does not give an account to the satisfaction of the court how he came by the same, he shall be deemed guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for three months.

8. It shall not be lawful for any person, without permission in writing from the Director of Marine, or from some person authorized by the Director of Marine in that behalf (proof of which permission shall lie on the party accused), to gather or search for stores, or to creep, sweep, or dredge in the sea or any tidal water, within one hundred yards from any vessel belonging to His Majesty or in His Majesty's service, or from any mooring place or anchoring place appropriated to such vessels, or from any moorings belonging to His Majesty, or from any of His Majesty's wharves, or dock, victualling, or steam factory yards, or from any aerodrome used by the Royal Air Force or the Hong Kong Defence Force, or within one thousand yards. from any battery or fort or other place used for firing practice by any of the armed forces of His Majesty or by the Hong Kong Defence Force.

Any person contravening the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars or to imprison- ment for three months.

9.

If stores are found in the possession or keeping etc., found in of a person being in His Majesty's service, or in the service of a public department, or being a dealer in marine stores or in old metals, or a pawnbroker (within the meaning of any enactments for the time in force relating to such dealers or to pawnbrokers), and he is taken or summoned before a magistrate, and the magistrate sees reasonable grounds.

and not accounting for them.

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