Read the full judgment text of CACC 000213/2003 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 6 January 2005.
1. By reason of section 20(1) of the Firearms and Ammunition Ordinance, Cap. 238, a person who is in possession of an imitation firearm commits an offence punishable with imprisonment; but section 20(3) provides that he does not commit an offence if he satisfies the court of one or more of a number of matters, one of which (section 20(3)(c)) is that he was not in possession for certain purposes there listed. The issue in this appeal is whether that provision, by placing an onus on the accused,
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