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GUN BARREL PROOF ACT 1868 - SECT 122

122. Every person committing any of the following offences shall [be liable on
summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum and on
conviction on indictment to a fine]; to wit,

(1)every person selling or exchanging, or attempting to sell or exchange, or
exposing or keeping for sale or exchange, or exporting or keeping for
exportation from [the United Kingdom], or importing into [the United Kingdom]
or attempting to export or import from or into [the United Kingdom], or having
in his possession (without lawful excuse, the proof whereof shall be upon
him,) any barrel having thereupon any mark of any forged or counterfeit stamp
or part of a stamp heretofore or now or hereafter provided or used by either
of the Two Companies for marking any barrel, or having thereupon any forged or
counterfeit mark or imitation of a mark of any stamp or part of a stamp so
provided or used, or having thereupon any mark of any stamp or part of a stamp
so provided or used, such mark having been transposed or removed thereto from
any part of the same barrel or from any other barrel,...:

(2)every person pawning or pledging, or attempting to pawn or pledge, or
taking in pawn or pledge (without lawful excuse, the proof whereof shall be
upon him,) any barrel having thereupon any mark of any forged or counterfeit
stamp or part of a stamp heretofore or now or hereafter provided or used by
either of the Two Companies for marking any barrel, or having thereupon any
forged or counterfeit mark or imitation of a mark of any stamp or part of a
stamp so provided or used, or having thereupon any mark of any stamp or part
of a stamp so provided or used, such mark having been transposed or removed
thereto from any part of the same barrel or from any other barrel,...:

(3)every person selling or exchanging, or attempting to sell or exchange, or
exposing or keeping for sale or exchange, or exporting or keeping for
exportation from [the United Kingdom], or attempting to export from [the
United Kingdom], any small arm, the barrel or barrels whereof are not under
the recited Act or this Act duly proved and marked as proved,...:

(4)every person importing into [the United Kingdom] any small arm, the barrel
or barrels whereof are not under the recited Act or this Act duly proved and
marked as proved, who shall not within seven days next after the arrival of
such small arm in [the United Kingdom] give notice in writing of such arrival
to the Proof Master of each of the Two Companies, or who shall not within
twenty-eight days next after such arrival send the barrel or barrels of such
imported small arm to the Proof House of one of the Two Companies for proof
thereat according to this Act,...; provided that the enactment contained in
this subsection shall not apply to any small arm imported by any person for
his own personal use while it is his own property, the proof whereof shall be
upon him:

(5)every person pawning or pledging, or attempting to pawn or pledge, or
taking in pawn or pledge, any small arm, the barrel or barrels whereof are not
under the recited Act or this Act duly proved and marked as proved, or, where
any small arm is pawned or pledged contrary to this subsection, selling or
disposing of or attempting to sell or dispose of the pawn ticket or other like
document taken on the pawning or pledging of such small arm,...:

(6)every person fraudulently erasing, obliterating, or defacing, or
fradulently causing to be erased, obliterated, or defaced, from any barrel,
any mark of any stamp or part of a stamp heretofore or now or hereafter
provided or used by either of the Two Companies for marking barrels,...:

(7)every person delivering or sending or causing or procuring to be delivered
or sent for sale or exchange, or, under any pretence of or in connexion with
any attempt at sale or exchange, or removing, consigning, or transmitting, or
causing or procuring to be removed, consigned, or transmitted for sale or
exchange, or under pretence of or in connexion with any attempt at sale or
exchange, any small arm, the barrel or barrels whereof are not under the
recited Act or this Act duly proved and marked as proved,...

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