Bermuda Consolidated Legislation

 

BERMUDA STATUTORY INSTRUMENT

BR 3/1981

CRIMINAL CODE (PROHIBITED WEAPONS) ORDER 1980

[made under section 315A of the Criminal Code [title 8 item 31] and brought into operation on 24 January 1981]

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1 Citation

2 List of prohibited weapons

Citation

1 This Order may be cited as the Criminal Code (Prohibited Weapons) Order 1980.

List of prohibited weapons

2 The following offensive weapons are declared to be prohibited weapons—

(a) a finger ring that has one or more blades or sharp objects that are capable of being projected from the surface of the ring;

(b) a flick knife, that is to say, a knife that has a blade that opens automatically by gravity or centrifugal force or by hand pressure applied to a button, spring or other device in or attached to the handle of the knife;

(c) an instrument or device sometimes known as "manrikigusari" or "kusari", being a length of rope, cord or chain fastened at each end to a hexagonal or other geometrically shaped hard weight or hand-grip;

(d) a device known as "spiked wristband" being a leather wristband to which a metal spike or blade is affixed, or any other similar weapon;

(e) a weapon known as the "constant companion", being a belt containing a concealed stainless steel knife, or any other similar weapon;

(f) a weapon known as the "yaqua blowgun" and any other tube or pipe from which arrows or darts are shot by the breath;

(g) a weapon known as the "catapult" or "slingshot", if commercially manufactured and designed for the hunting of small game or target practice;

(h) a cross-bow and any bolt or other projectile that is designed or adapted for use in a cross-bow;

(i) an instrument or device commonly known as "Shuriken", being a hard non-flexible plate having three or more radiating points with one or more sharp edges in the shape of a polygon, trefoil, cross, star, diamond or other geometric shape and designed to be thrown as a weapon;

(j) a weapon known as a "swordstick" or "swordcane", being a hollow cane or walking stick containing a metal blade which may be drawn or shot out and used as a sword or knife;

(k) a weapon known as the "Cobra Baton", and any other baton having a spring loaded telescopic steel shaft.