applications. 98. Applications and petitions which have been made and filed Pending under any former Act not completed at the commencement of this Act shall be continued to completion under the provisions of said chapter 239 as amended by said chapter 49 and by this Act. 99. Affidavits and declarations authorized to be made under the Affidavits and declarations. provisions of the "Water Act" or amendments thereto shall be made before one of the following officials having jurisdiction in the Province or the part thereof where such affidavits or declarations may be sworn or made, that is to say: A Supreme or County Court Judge, a Registrar of a Court of Record, a member of the Board, the Comptroller of Water Rights, a Water Recorder, an Engineer of a water district, an engineer conducting surveys under the Act, a Government Agent, the Mayor of a city, the Reeve of a municipality, a Commissioner for taking Affidavits, or any person authorized by the "Land Act" or by the "Mineral Act" to take affidavits and declarations. VICTORIA, B.C.: Printed by WILLIAM H. CULLIN, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. H' CHAPTER 83. An Act respecting Offensive Weapons. [1st March, 1913.] IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the "Offensive Weapons Act." Short title. weapons to 2. Every person who exposes for sale, offers for sale, or sells Sale of certain any bowie-knife, dirk, dagger, stiletto, metal knuckles, skull-cracker, unauthorized persons prohibited. or slung-shot, or who sells a revolver, pistol, or toy air-gun, to any person other than one holding a certificate issued under section 118 of the Criminal Code, or one, being over sixteen years of age, who R.S.C., c. 146. produces to and leaves with the vendor a permit in writing, signed by the Superintendent of Provincial Police, or a chief constable or chief of police of a city or district municipality, allowing him to purchase a revolver, pistol, or toy air-gun, shall be guilty of an offence, and liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars or less than twenty-five dollars, or to Penalty. imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, with or without hard labour, or to both; and the bowie-knife, dirk, dagger, stiletto, metal knuckles, skull-cracker, or slung-shot, revolver, pistol, or toy air-gun so exposed or offered for sale or sold by such person shall be confiscated by the Police Magistrate or Justice and transferred to the Superintendent of Provincial Police, chief constable, or chief of police aforesaid, or destroyed as such Magistrate or Justice may see fit. 3. (1.) Every person who sells a revolver, pistol, or toy air-gun Record of sales. under the provisions of section 2 hereof, without keeping a record of the date of the sale, name of maker, serial number of such revolver, Search of person by peace officer. Finding weapons on foreigners. Unlawful to have in possession silencer. Regulation may be made. pistol, or toy air-gun, and the name, address, and occupation of the purchaser, or who sells or exposes or offers for sale any revolver or pistol which does not bear a serial number and the maker's name, shall be guilty of an offence, and liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars or less than twenty-five dollars, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, with or without hard labour, or to both; and the revolver, pistol, or toy air-gun so exposed or offered for sale or sold by such person shall be confiscated by the Police Magistrate or Justice and transferred to the Superintendent of Provincial Police, chief constable, or chief of police aforesaid, or destroyed as such Magistrate or Justice may see fit. (2.) The record referred to in subsection (1) may be inspected at any time by any peace officer, and a copy thereof shall be transmitted by the person making the sale to the Superintendent of Provincial Police within seven days after the thirty-first March, thirtieth June, thirtieth September, and thirty-first December in each year. A violation of this subsection shall render the offender liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars. 4. Every peace officer may search any person who he has reason to believe and does believe is violating any of the provisions of sections 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 123, 124, 126, and 127 of the Criminal Code, and may seize any of the weapons which such person is illegally carrying, and any weapon seized under this section shall be confiscated and handed over to the Superintendent of Provincial Police or to the chief constable or chief of police aforesaid, to be by him retained, disposed of, or destroyed as he may see fit. 5. If any of the weapons mentioned in the second section hereof is found upon a person believed not to be a native of Canada by the constable making the search or by the Justice of the Peace or Magistrate before whom such person is charged with an offence, he shall report such facts to the Attorney-General, and the Attorney-General may communicate with the Minister of the Interior with the view of having such person deported under the "Immigration Act." 6. It shall be unlawful for any person to use or have in his possession a silencer or any contrivance for deadening or muffling the sound caused by an explosion of a firearm. Any person in any way contravening this section shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty of not less than twenty and not more than one hundred dollars, and, in default of immediate payment, to imprisonment with hard labour for a term not exceeding six months. 7. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may make such regulations as shall be deemed necessary or convenient for carrying into effect the provisions of this Act. |