MILITARY STORES (PROHIBITION OF EXPORTATION) ORDINANCE, 1862

MILITARY STORES (PROHIBITION OF EXPORTATION) ORDINANCE, 1862

ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1862.

MILITARY STORES (PROHIBITION OF EXPORTATION) ORDINANCE, 1862

AN ORDINANCE to authorize to authorize the Governor by Proclamation
to prohibit the Expotation of Military Stores and other
Articles.
[17th March, 1862.]
WHEREAS it is desirable to vest in the Governor power to prohibit
the exportation of military stores and other articles and goods,
subject to such provisions as are hereinafter expressed:
BEit therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the ad-
vice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Military Stores (Prohiition
of Exportation ) Ordinance, 1862.
2.-(1.) It shall be lawful for the Govenor, by and with the advice of
the Executive Council, by preclamation to be published in The Gazette
or in any Extraordinary Gazette, to prohibit, for such period as may
be mentioned in such proclamation, either to be exported from the Col-
ony or to be carried coastwise within the colony, arms, ammunition,
and sort of victual which may be used as fond by man, or any or either
of such arms, ammunition, gunpowder, stores, or articles respect-
ively.
(2.) In case any such arms, ammunition, gunpowder, stores, goods,
or articles which have been so prohibited are or is exported from the
Colony or are or is carried coastwise, or are or is water-borne to be so
exported or carried, theyor it shall be forfeited and shall vest in Her
Majesty, and forthwith thereupon it shall be the dut of the Harbour
Master of the Colony, by warrant under his hand, of his own view or
on an information made upon oath before any Majesty, to cause
all such goods and articles so hereinbefore declared forfeited to be
seized, and to detain the same to the use of Her Majesty and to be
disposed of as the Governor may, by order under his hand and seal,
direct.
3.-(1.) The Governor may in his discretion, at any time whilst any
proclamation made under this Ordinance is in force, permit to be ex-
ported or to be carried coastwise, or to be waterr-borne to be so exported
or carried, any particular articles or class of articles, the export of
which is prohibited by such proclamation, to such persons and on such
terms and subject to such conditions and regulations, if any, as to the
Governor may seem fit, and may in his discretion at any time revoke
or vary the term of any such permission.
(2.) Whilst any such permission is in force, it shall be lawful to
export the articles so permitted to be exjpoted, subject and according to
the terms, conditions, and regulations of such permission.
4. The Harbour Master shall not be liable in damages or otherwise
for any not done by him in parsuance of the obligation and duty im-
posed on him by this Ordinance. and in case the Governor directs the

disposition of any goods or article which have or has been seized by the
Harbour Master, such direction shall be conclusive evidence that the
act done by the Harbour Master is within the duty imposed on him
by this Ordinance.
A.D. 1862. Ordinance No. 3 of 1862, with Ordinance No. 3 of 1884 incorporated. Short title. Power to Governor-in-Council by proclamation to prohibit exportation of military stores. Power to Governor to relax provisions of proclamation. Protection of Harbour master for act done under the Ordinance.

A.D. 1862. Ordinance No. 3 of 1862, with Ordinance No. 3 of 1884 incorporated. Short title. Power to Governor-in-Council by proclamation to prohibit exportation of military stores. Power to Governor to relax provisions of proclamation. Protection of Harbour master for act done under the Ordinance.

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