Section 9

If any stores are found in the possession or keeping of a person being in Her Majesty’s service, or in the service of a public department, or being a dealer in marine stores or in old metals, or a pawnbroker (within the meaning of any written law for the time in force relating to such dealers or to pawnbrokers), and he is taken or summoned before a magistrate, and the magistrate sees reasonable grounds for believing the stores found to be or to have been Her

Majesty’s property, then if such person does not satisfy the magistrate that he came lawfully by the stores so found, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of five hundred dollars.

Criminal possession explained.