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(4) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions
of this section, or who in the sale, purchase, hire, or delivery
of any firearm knowingly makes or causes to be made any
false entry or statement as to any matter which he is
required by this section to make, shall be liable to a fine
of twenty-four dollars.

17. It shall be lawful for any Justice, by warrant under
his hand, to direct any member of the Police Force, with
such assistance as may be necessary, to enter and search at
any time of the day or night any house, store, yard, or other
place or any vessel in which there shall be reasonable
cause to suspect that any firearms are concealed or placed
in respect of which no licence to keep firearms under the
provisions of this Ordinance shall be then in force. All
firearms that may be found upon any such search shall be
forfeited to the Crown:

Provided that this section shall not apply to firearms in
the possession of persons exempted under the provisions
of section 3, nor to firearms in the possession of persons
licensed to sell or deal in firearms or in the possession of a
licensed gunsmith, entry whereof shall have been made in
accordance with the provisions of section 16.

18. No firearm imported into the Colony shall be delivered
by the Comptroller of Customs and Excise to any person
unless he shall have first obtained a licence to deal in
firearms or a licence to keep firearms.

19. The provisions of this Ordinance shall not apply
where an antique firearm is sold or kept as a curiosity or
ornament.

20. (1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, by
proclamation, to prohibit the carrying of firearms in any
district or part of the Colony, and any such proclamation
to revoke or alter as he shall think fit.

(2) Any person who carries firearms in contravention
of the provisions of such proclamation shall be liable to a
fine of two hundred and forty dollars, in addition to the
forfeiture to the Crown of such firearms.

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Search
warrant.

Delivery
from
Customs.

Curiosities.

Power to
prohibit
carrying
of arms.