MILITARY STORES (EXPORTATION) ORDINANCE, 1862

MILITARY STORES (EXPORTATION) ORDINANCE, 1862

No. 1 of 1862.

To authorize the Govenor-in-Council by proclamation to prohibit
the exportation of military stores and other articles.
[17th March, 1862.]
WHEREAS it is desirable to vest in the Governor-in-Council power
to prohibit the exportation of military stores and other articles
and goods, subject to such provisions as are hereinafter
expressed:----

1. The Military Stores (Exportation) Ordinance, 1862.

2.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council, by pro-
clamation, to prohibit, for such period as may be therein mentioned,
either to be exported from the Colony or to be carried coastwise


within the Colony,arms,ammunition,and gunpowder,military
and naval stores, and any articles which the Governor-in-Council
may judge capable of being converted into or made useful in
increasing the quantity of military or naval stores,provisions,
or any sort of virtual which may he used as food by man, or any
or either of such arms,ammunition,gunpowder,stores,goods,or

(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 coastvise, or are or is water-
borne to be so exported or carried,they or it shall be forfeited, and
forthwith it shall be the duty of the Harbour Master by warrant
under his hand and seal, on his own view or on an information
made upon oath before a Magistrate, to cause all such goods and
articles so hereinbefore declared forfeited to be seized, and to detain
the same to be disposed of as the Governor may, by order under
his hand and seal, direct.
3.-(1) The Governor may whilst any such proclamation is in
force, permit to be exported or to be carried coastwise, or to be
water-borne to be so exported or carried, any particular articles or
class of articles, the export of which is prohibited by such proclama-
tion, 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 at any time revoke or vary the terms of any such
permission.
(2) Whilst anly such permission is in force, it shall be lawful to
export the articles so permitted to be exported, subject and accord-
ing to the terms, conditions,and regulations of such permission.
4. The Harbour Master shall not be able in damages or other-
wise for any act done by him in pursuance of the duty imposed on
him by this Ordinance, and in case the Governor directs the
disposion 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.
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.

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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