ARMS ORDINANCE. An Ordinance to regulate the removal and the making and repairing of Arms, Gunpowder, and other Warlike Stores, within the colony of New Zealand. (Passed the 12th day of November, 1846.)

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 153, 16 January 1847, Page 3

ARMS ORDINANCE. An Ordinance to regulate the removal and the making and repairing of Arms, Gunpowder, and other Warlike Stores, within the colony of New Zealand. (Passed the 12th day of November, 1846.)

WHEREAS provision hath been made for regulating the Importation and Sale of Armsr Gunpowder, and other Warlike Stores, and it is expedient that restriction should also be placed on the removal, making, and repairing of the same. Be it enacted by the Lieute-nant-Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows : — 1. It shall not be lawful for any person to remove, or cause to be removed, from any one part of the colony of New Zaaland to any other part of the said colony, either by inland carriage or coastways, any Arms or Warlike, Stores, or any Gunpowder exceeding the weight of two pounds, without a License for removing and carrying the same, granted by some Justice of the Peace. Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to prevent any person from carrying arms for the defence of his person, or for sporting, as by law he might before the passing of this Ordinance. 2. Every person who shall remove, or cause to be removed, any such Arms, Gunpowder, or other Warlike Stores, contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding fifty pounds, nor less than five

pounds, to be recovered in a summary way. 3. It shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace upon information on oath to search for and seize, or to grant a Warrant to any person to search for and seize, and for any Officer of the Navy on full pay, Harbour Master, Officer of Customs, Police officer, or Constable, or for any other person acting in his or their aid and assistance, without such information on oath, to search for and seize all such Arms, Gunpowder, and other Warlike Stores, which shall be in progress of removal, or shall be removed without such License, or without producing such License on demand of any such person as aforesaid. And all such Arms, Gunpowder, and other Warlike Stores so to be seized as aforesaid,

shall be forfeited to her Majesty. 4. No person shall make, construct, amend, or repair any Arms, Gunpowder, or other Warlike Stores, without a License to be for that purpose granted under the authority of his Excellency the Governor. 5. Every person who shall make, construct, amend, or repair any Arms, Gunpowder, or other Warlike Stores, without having obtained such License, shall for every such offence forfeit, and pay any sum not exceeding fifty pounds, nor less than five pounds.

6. Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend to prevent the removal, : or the making or repairing of Arms, Gunpowder, and other Warlike Stores hy or on account of the New Zealand Police force, or by or on account of her Majesty's land or sea forces. 7. For the purposes of this Ordinance the word " Governor " shall be taken to include *he " Lieutenant-Governor," or the "Officer Administering the Government " of the colony for the time being. 8. This Ordinance shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1847.