The Arms Act, 1959
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The Arms Act, 1959
THE ARMS ACT, 1959 ACT NO. 54 OF 1959
[23rd December, 1959.]An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to arms and ammunition.CHAPPRELIMINARYCHAPTER IPRELIMINARY1.Short title, extent and commencement.1. Short title, extent and commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the Arms Act, 1959.(2) It extends to the whole of India.(3) It shall come into force on such date 1* as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gezette, appoint.2.Definition and interpretation.2. Definition and interpretation.- (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,--(a) "acquisition", with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, includes hiring, borrowing, or accepting as a gift;(b) "ammunition" means ammunition for any firearm, and includes--(i) rockets, bombs, grenades, shells [and other missiles] 2*(ii) articles, designed for torpedo service and submarine mining, (iii) other articles containing, or designed or adapted to contain, explosive, fulminating or fissionable material or noxious liquid, gas or other such thing, whether capable of use with firearms or not,[See footnote 1 for this section](iv) charges for firearms and accessories for such charges, (v) fuses and friction tubes, (vi) parts of, and machinery for manufacturing ammunition, and (vii) such ingredients of ammunition as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf;(c) "arms" means articles of any description designed or adapted as weapons for offence or defence, and includes firearms, sharpedged and other deadly weapons, and parts of, and machinery for manufacturing, arms, but does not include articles designed solely for domestic or agricultural uses such as a lathi or an ordinary walking stick and weapons incapable of being used otherwise than as toys or of being converted into serviceable weapons;1*[(d) "district magistrate", in relation to any area for which a Commissioner of Police has been appointed, means the Commissioner of Police thereof and includes any such Deputy Commissioner of Police, exercising jurisdiction over the whole or any part of such area, as may be specified by the State Government in this behalf in relation to such area or part;](e) "firearms" means arms of any description designed or adapted to discharge a projectile or projectiles of any kind by the action of any explosive or other forms of energy, and includes--(i) artillery, hand-grenades, riot-pistols or weapons of any kind designed or adapted for the discharge of any noxious liquid, gas or other such thing, (ii) accessories for any such firearm designed or adapted to diminish the noise or flash caused by the firing thereof, (iii) parts of, and machinery for manufacturing, firearms, and (iv) carriages, platforms and appliances for mounting, transporting and serving artillery.[See footnote 2 for this section](f) "licensing authority" means an officer or authority empowered to grant or renew licences under rules made under this Act, and includes the Government;1*[(ff) "magistrate" means an Executive Magistrate under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974);](g) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act, (h) "prohibited ammunition" means any ammunition containing or designed or adapted to contain, any noxious liquid, gas or other such thing, and includes rockets, bombs, grenade...See the full content of this document
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