Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume IX, Issue 18, 2 September 1885, Page 150

Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.

(From Gazette, 1885, pages 997 and 998.) Certain Provisions of “ The Arms Act, 1880,” suspended in the North Island.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor. IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by “ The Arms Act, 1880,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said p Colony, doth hereby suspend, as from the date of the pub- '' . lication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette ft Ee operation of all the provisions of the said Act in so far as they relate to the sale or purchase by any European or Europeans of arms, ammunition, gunpowder, lead, caps, or shot, for mining, sporting, or any useful or harmless purpose, in the district contained within the North Island and the adjacent smaller islands; and doth hereby further declare that from and after the date aforesaid the fee of one pound, payable in respect of a dealer’s license in the Form B in the First Schedule to the said Act shall no longer be chargeable : And in exercise of the like powers, and with the like advice and consent as aforesaid, His Excellency doth hereby make and prescribe the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto as those upon which ammunition for the purposes aforesaid may henceforth be obtained by aboriginal natives within the district aforesaid.

SCHEDULE, Regulations.

In these regulations the following terms and expressions shall, if not inconsistent with the context, have the meanings hereby attached to them, viz.:—

“ The said Act ” means “ The Arms Act, 1880 “ Native applicant ” means “aboriginal native,” as defined by section 2 of the said Act.

1. Any Justice of the Peace, Collector of Customs, or officer of police may, in his discretion, grant a permit to any Native applicant to purchase not more than two pounds of powder, twenty pounds of shot, and five hundred caps. 2. The rights granted by every permit shall bo exercised within one month from the time of granting such permit. 3. Every permit shall be signed by a Justice of the Peace, Collector of Customs, or officer of police, and shall bear upon it the date on which the same is granted. No particular form of words shall be necessary. 4. Every permit shall be granted free of cost.

5. Every licensed dealer shall, before delivering any ammunition to any Native applicant, require such applicant to sign a receipt, in words at length, without the use of any numeral figures, for the quantity of each sort of ammunition he shall receive from such dealer, with his name and address, and date of the day of receiving such ammunition. Failing in any of these particulars, the dealer shall refuse to deliver to the purchaser any of the ammunition, and shall refund any money paid for the same.

6. If any such dealer shall sell or dispose of any ammunition, with or without price or reward, to any other person, without taking such receipt, or shall within any one month sell or dispose of to the same person any quantity of ammunition exceeding the quantity mentioned in Regulation 1 hereof, the Governor may thereupon exercise his power of cancelling or withdrawing the license of such dealer. 7. Every such receipt as aforesaid shall be given by the purchaser, on receiving the ammunition, to the dealer, who shall keep the same. 8. The particulars of the receipt shall be copied by the dealer into the book required to be kept by such dealer under the provisions of section thirteen of the said Act.

9. Every receipt shall be produced, on demand, to any Licensing Officer or person duly authorized by him to require the same. 10. Any Justice of the Peace, Collector of Customs, or officer of police may, in his discretion, grant to any Native applicant a permit for an increased quantity of ammunition not exceeding twenty-five pounds of gunpowder, and a proportionate quantity of shot and caps, when satisfied that it is required for the destruction of rabbits upon stations and the like, and that it will be used for those purposes. Every such sale of an increased quantity of ammunition under this regulation shall, so far only as the same relates to the

receipt to bo taken by the dealer, be subject to the Regulations numbered 5 to 9 hereof inclusive. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor! this twenty-fifth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five. FORSTER GORING, Clerk of the Executive Council.