OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON ACT 1861 - SECT 65 Making or having gunpowder, &c. with intent to commit any felony against this Act.

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OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON ACT 1861 - SECT 65

Making or having gunpowder, &c. with intent to commit any felony against this Act.

65. Any justice of the peace of any county or place in which any such
gunpowder, or other explosive, dangerous, or noxious substance or thing, or
any such machine, engine, instrument or thing, is suspected to be made, kept,
or carried for the purpose of being used in committing any of the felonies in
this Act mentioned, upon reasonable cause assigned upon oath by any person,
may issue a warrant under his hand and seal for searching, in the daytime, any
house, mill, magazine, storehouse, warehouse, shop, cellar, yard, wharf, or
other place, or any carriage, waggon, cart, ship, boat, or vessel, in which
the same is suspected to be made, kept, or carried for such purpose as
herein-before mentioned; and every person acting in the execution of any such
warrant shall have, for seizing, removing to proper places, and detaining all
such gunpowder, explosive, dangerous, or noxious substances, machines,
engines, instruments, or things, found upon such search, which he shall have
good cause to suspect to be intended to be used in committing any such
offence, and the barrels, packages, cases and other receptacles in which the
same shall be, the same powers and protections which are given to persons
searching for unlawful quantities of gunpowder under the warrant of a justice
by the Act passed in the session holden in the twenty-third and twenty-fourth
years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and
thirty-nine, intituled, "An Act to amend the law concerning the making,
keeping, and carriage of gunpowder and compositions of an explosive nature,
and concerning the manufacture, sale, and use of fireworks."

Ss.66, 67 rep. by 1953 c.14 (NI) s.1(2); 1967 c.18 (NI) s.15(2) sch.2 Pt.II

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OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON ACT 1861 - SECT 65