Hong Kong

arms (槍械) means— (a) any firearm; (b) an air rifle, air gun or air pistol from which any shot, bullet or missile can be discharged with a muzzle energy greater than 2 joules; (c) any portable device which is designed or adapted to stun or disable a person by means of an electric shock applied either with or without direct contact with that person; (d) any gun, pistol or other propelling or releasing instrument from or by which a projectile containing any gas or chemical could be discharged; (e) any weapon for the discharge of any noxious liquid, gas, powder or other similar thing (including an aerosol containing any noxious liquid, gas, powder or other similar thing which is not in general trade or domestic use in aerosol form); (f) any harpoon or spear gun, however powered; (g) any other thing declared by the Chief Executive in Council in regulations made under section 52 to be within the definition of arms for the purpose of this Ordinance; (h) a component part used or intended to be used for the discharge of a missile from any of the arms coming within the foregoing paragraphs, and any accessory to such arms designed or adapted to diminish the noise or flash caused by firing the same

13. Possession of arms or ammunition without licence (1) No person shall have in his possession any arms or ammunition unless— (a) he holds a licence for possession of such arms or ammunition or a dealer's licence therefor; or (b) (Repealed 14 of 2000 s. 10) (2) A person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on conviction upon indictment to a fine at level 6 and to imprisonment for 14 years.

fishing or hunting device (釣魚、捕魚或獵捕器具) means any tool, equipment or appliance designed or used for the purpose of fishing or hunting animals and includes any net, line, trap, chemical, electric charge, explosive or spear gun; hunt (獵捕) includes any act immediately directed at the killing or capture of any animal or the taking of any nest, egg or young of any animal; fish (釣魚、捕魚、魚類)— (a) when used as a verb, means to kill or capture fish; and (b) when used as a noun, means any fish, crustacean, echinoderm or mollusc;

3. Prohibition of fishing, hunting and collecting animals and plants, etc. (1) Subject to subsection (1A), no person shall fish or hunt, injure, remove or take away any animal or plant by any means in or from a marine park or marine reserve. (1A) Subsection (1) does not prohibit a person from fishing if the person is permitted to— (a) fish in or from a marine park under and in accordance with a permit granted under section 17(3); or (b) fish in or from a special zone specified in column 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 1, subject to compliance with the conditions specified, opposite to the special zone, in column 3 of that Part. (2) No person shall take, remove, injure, destroy or wilfully disturb a nest, egg, young, or nesting ground of any protected marine and coastal species in a marine park or marine reserve. (3) A person within a marine park or marine reserve, who is in possession of a fishing or hunting device, plant, fish or animal, in circumstances that give rise to a reasonable suspicion that an offence under subsection (1) or (2) has been committed, will be presumed to have committed the offence in the absence of evidence to the contrary.

4. Prohibition of possession of certain fishing or hunting devices (1) No person shall have in his possession any fishing or hunting device specified in Schedule 3 in a marine park or marine reserve. (2) In any proceedings against a person for an offence under this section, it shall be a defence for that person to show that the fishing or hunting device is not intended to be used inside a marine park or marine reserve. ... Schedule 3 [s. 4] Fishing or Hunting Devices 1. Any trawl net including stern trawl, pair trawl or shrimp trawl net 2. Any spear gun 3. Any fishing device using high voltage electric charge for the purpose of stunning fish or animals 4. Cha Tsai Peng (oil processing residue from tea-seeds), rotenone, phenthoate, permethrin or cyanide 5. Dynamite or other explosives

6. Prohibition of boating, etc. in marine reserves No person shall within a marine reserve swim, dive or carry out any boating.