NAVAL STORES ORDINANCE, 1875
Title
NAVAL STORES ORDINANCE, 1875
Description
No. 4 of 1875.
For the more effectual protection of His Majesty's Naval
Stores.
1. The Naval Stores Ordinance,1875.
2. In this Ordinance-
' The Admiralty' incIndes the officer in command of His
Majesty's Naval Force in the Colony .
' Dealer in Marine Stores ' means any person dealing in, buy-
ing, and selling anchors, cables, sails, or old junk, old iron, or
marine stores of any description:
' Dealer in Old Metals ' means any person dealing in, buying,
and selling old metal, scrap metal, broken metal or partly manu-
factured metal goods,or defaced or old metal goods, and whether
such person deals in such articles only or together with second
hand goods or marine stores; and 'Old Metal' means the said
articles:
'In His Majesty's Service,' when applied to persons,applies
also to persons in the employment of the, Admiralty:
' Stores' include all goods and chattels and any single store
or article.
3. No person shall use or exercise the trade or business of a
dealer in marine, stores,or a dealor in old metals,unless he is the
holder of a licence for that purpose.
4. Every such licence shall be granted by and held at the dis-
cretion of the Captain Superintendent of Police on such conditions
as to fees and subject to such regnlations as inay be prescribed hy
the Governor-in-Council.
5. Every dealer in marine stores to whom a licence is granted
shall keep books fairly written, and shall enter therein an account
of all such marine stores or old metal as he may from time to time
become possossed of,stating in respect of each article the time at
which and the person from whom he purchased or received the
saine, adding, in (lie casse of every such last-mentioned person, a
description of his business and place of abode.
6. Every person to whom such licence is granted shall, when-
ever thereunto required by any Superintendent or Inspector of
Police, or by any constable bearing a written order in that behalf
under the hand of a Superintendent ,produce for the inspection
of the party so requiring him all or any marine stores or old metal
in his possession or subject to his control and all books and papers
relating to the same.
7. Every person who acts in contravention of the provisions
contained in sections 3, 5, or 6, or of any regulation made under
section 4, shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a penalty not
exceeding 200 dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceed-
ing 3 months.
8.-(1) The marks described in the schedule may be applied in
or on stores therein described to denoto his property in
stores so marked.
(2) It shall be lawful for the Admiralty,their contractors,
officers, and workmen, to apply the said marks, or any of them,
in or on any such stores its are, described in the schedule.
(8) Every person who without lawful authority applies any of
the said marks in or on any such stores shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor,and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not
exceeding 2 years.
9. Every person who, 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 shall be guilty of felony,
and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding
4 years.
10-(1) If stores are found in the possession or keeping of any
person being in His Majesty's service or in the service of the
Admiralty, or being a dealer in marine stores or in old metals or
a pawnbroker (within the meaning of any enactments relating to
such dealers or to pawnbrokers), and he is taken or summoned
before a Magistrate, and the Magistrate sees reasonable grounds
for believing the stores found to be or to have been His Majesty's
property, then, if such person does not satisfy the Magistrate that
he came lawfully by the stores found, he shall, on summary
conviction, be liable to a penalty not exceeding 25 dollars.
(52) For the purposes of this section, stores shall be deemed to
be in the possession or keeping of any person if he knowingly has
them in the actual possession or keeping of any other person or in
any house, building, lodging, apartment, field,or place, open or
enclosed, whether occupied by himself or not and whether the
same are so had for his own use or benefit or for the use or benefit
of another person.
11-(1) It shall not be lawful for any person,without per-
mission in writing from the Amiralty or from some person
authorised by the Admiralty in that behalf,to gather or search
for stores, or to creep,sweep or dredge, in the harbour witbin
100 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 front any of His Majesty's wharves or dock,
victualling, or steam factory yards.
(2) Every person who acts in contravention of this section
shall, on summary conviction,be liable to a penalty not exceeding
25 dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 3
months.
12. The following sections of the Larceny Ordinance, 1865,
shall be incorporated with this Ordinance, and shall be read as if
they, were ber6 re-enacted, namely, sections 86 to 88, 91, and
94 to 102; and for this purpose the expression ' this Ordinance ',
when used in the said incorporated sections, shall be taken to
include the present Ordinance.
13. Nothing in this Ordinance shall prevent any person from
being indicted under this Ordinance or otherwise for any indictable
offence made punishable on summary conviction by this Ordinance,
or prevent any person froni being liable, wider any other Ordinance
or otherwise to any other or higher penalty or punishment than
is provided for any offence by this Ordinance, so that no person
is punished twice for the sarne offence.
SCHEDULE. [s.8.]
MARKS APPROPRIATED FOR HIS MAJESTY'S USE IN OR ON NAVAL
AND VICTUALLING STORES.
Short title. Interpretation of terms. Licence for dealing in marine stores. Conditions of licence. Keeping of books by licence holder. Power to inspect goods, book, etc., of licence-holder. Punishment for contraventions. Appropriation of marks for His Majesty's stores. Obliterating mark, with intent to conceal. Penalty on dealer, etc., found in possession of stores, and not accounting for them. [cf. No. 1 of 1860.] Unauthorised persons not to gather stores, within 100 yards of His Majesty's vessels, etc. Incorporation of sections of the Larceny Ordinance, No. 5 of 1865. Saving of liability of offender to be indicted.
For the more effectual protection of His Majesty's Naval
Stores.
1. The Naval Stores Ordinance,1875.
2. In this Ordinance-
' The Admiralty' incIndes the officer in command of His
Majesty's Naval Force in the Colony .
' Dealer in Marine Stores ' means any person dealing in, buy-
ing, and selling anchors, cables, sails, or old junk, old iron, or
marine stores of any description:
' Dealer in Old Metals ' means any person dealing in, buying,
and selling old metal, scrap metal, broken metal or partly manu-
factured metal goods,or defaced or old metal goods, and whether
such person deals in such articles only or together with second
hand goods or marine stores; and 'Old Metal' means the said
articles:
'In His Majesty's Service,' when applied to persons,applies
also to persons in the employment of the, Admiralty:
' Stores' include all goods and chattels and any single store
or article.
3. No person shall use or exercise the trade or business of a
dealer in marine, stores,or a dealor in old metals,unless he is the
holder of a licence for that purpose.
4. Every such licence shall be granted by and held at the dis-
cretion of the Captain Superintendent of Police on such conditions
as to fees and subject to such regnlations as inay be prescribed hy
the Governor-in-Council.
5. Every dealer in marine stores to whom a licence is granted
shall keep books fairly written, and shall enter therein an account
of all such marine stores or old metal as he may from time to time
become possossed of,stating in respect of each article the time at
which and the person from whom he purchased or received the
saine, adding, in (lie casse of every such last-mentioned person, a
description of his business and place of abode.
6. Every person to whom such licence is granted shall, when-
ever thereunto required by any Superintendent or Inspector of
Police, or by any constable bearing a written order in that behalf
under the hand of a Superintendent ,produce for the inspection
of the party so requiring him all or any marine stores or old metal
in his possession or subject to his control and all books and papers
relating to the same.
7. Every person who acts in contravention of the provisions
contained in sections 3, 5, or 6, or of any regulation made under
section 4, shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a penalty not
exceeding 200 dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceed-
ing 3 months.
8.-(1) The marks described in the schedule may be applied in
or on stores therein described to denoto his property in
stores so marked.
(2) It shall be lawful for the Admiralty,their contractors,
officers, and workmen, to apply the said marks, or any of them,
in or on any such stores its are, described in the schedule.
(8) Every person who without lawful authority applies any of
the said marks in or on any such stores shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor,and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not
exceeding 2 years.
9. Every person who, 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 shall be guilty of felony,
and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding
4 years.
10-(1) If stores are found in the possession or keeping of any
person being in His Majesty's service or in the service of the
Admiralty, or being a dealer in marine stores or in old metals or
a pawnbroker (within the meaning of any enactments relating to
such dealers or to pawnbrokers), and he is taken or summoned
before a Magistrate, and the Magistrate sees reasonable grounds
for believing the stores found to be or to have been His Majesty's
property, then, if such person does not satisfy the Magistrate that
he came lawfully by the stores found, he shall, on summary
conviction, be liable to a penalty not exceeding 25 dollars.
(52) For the purposes of this section, stores shall be deemed to
be in the possession or keeping of any person if he knowingly has
them in the actual possession or keeping of any other person or in
any house, building, lodging, apartment, field,or place, open or
enclosed, whether occupied by himself or not and whether the
same are so had for his own use or benefit or for the use or benefit
of another person.
11-(1) It shall not be lawful for any person,without per-
mission in writing from the Amiralty or from some person
authorised by the Admiralty in that behalf,to gather or search
for stores, or to creep,sweep or dredge, in the harbour witbin
100 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 front any of His Majesty's wharves or dock,
victualling, or steam factory yards.
(2) Every person who acts in contravention of this section
shall, on summary conviction,be liable to a penalty not exceeding
25 dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 3
months.
12. The following sections of the Larceny Ordinance, 1865,
shall be incorporated with this Ordinance, and shall be read as if
they, were ber6 re-enacted, namely, sections 86 to 88, 91, and
94 to 102; and for this purpose the expression ' this Ordinance ',
when used in the said incorporated sections, shall be taken to
include the present Ordinance.
13. Nothing in this Ordinance shall prevent any person from
being indicted under this Ordinance or otherwise for any indictable
offence made punishable on summary conviction by this Ordinance,
or prevent any person froni being liable, wider any other Ordinance
or otherwise to any other or higher penalty or punishment than
is provided for any offence by this Ordinance, so that no person
is punished twice for the sarne offence.
SCHEDULE. [s.8.]
MARKS APPROPRIATED FOR HIS MAJESTY'S USE IN OR ON NAVAL
AND VICTUALLING STORES.
Short title. Interpretation of terms. Licence for dealing in marine stores. Conditions of licence. Keeping of books by licence holder. Power to inspect goods, book, etc., of licence-holder. Punishment for contraventions. Appropriation of marks for His Majesty's stores. Obliterating mark, with intent to conceal. Penalty on dealer, etc., found in possession of stores, and not accounting for them. [cf. No. 1 of 1860.] Unauthorised persons not to gather stores, within 100 yards of His Majesty's vessels, etc. Incorporation of sections of the Larceny Ordinance, No. 5 of 1865. Saving of liability of offender to be indicted.
Abstract
Short title. Interpretation of terms. Licence for dealing in marine stores. Conditions of licence. Keeping of books by licence holder. Power to inspect goods, book, etc., of licence-holder. Punishment for contraventions. Appropriation of marks for His Majesty's stores. Obliterating mark, with intent to conceal. Penalty on dealer, etc., found in possession of stores, and not accounting for them. [cf. No. 1 of 1860.] Unauthorised persons not to gather stores, within 100 yards of His Majesty's vessels, etc. Incorporation of sections of the Larceny Ordinance, No. 5 of 1865. Saving of liability of offender to be indicted.
Identifier
https://oelawhk.lib.hku.hk/items/show/802
Edition
1912
Volume
v1
Cap / Ordinance No.
No. 4 of 1875
Number of Pages
4
Files
Collection
Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online
Citation
“NAVAL STORES ORDINANCE, 1875,” Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online, accessed November 14, 2024, https://oelawhk.lib.hku.hk/items/show/802.
