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Arms Act 1878

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PREAMBLE Preamble
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FIRST SCHEDULE Schedule
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SECOND SCHEDULE Schedule
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1 Short title, Local extent and Savings
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2 Commencement
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3 [Repealed.]
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4 Interpretation-clause
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5 Unlicensed manufacture, conversion and sale prohibited
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6 Unlicensed importation and exportation prohibited
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7 Sanction of Central Government required to warehousing of arms, etc.
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8 [Repealed.]
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9 [Repealed.]
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10 Power to prohibit transport
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11 Power to establish searching stations
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12 Arrest of persons conveying arms, etc., under suspicious circumstances
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13 Prohibition of going armed without license
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14 Unlicensed possession of fire-arms, etc.
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15 Possession of arms of any description without license prohibited in certain places
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16 In certain cases arms to be deposited at police-stations or with licensed dealers
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17 Power to make rules as to licenses
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18 Cancelling and suspension of license
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19 For breach of sections 5, 6, 10, 13 to 17
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20 For secret breaches of sections 5, 6, 10, 14 and 15
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21 For breach of license
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22 For knowingly purchasing arms, etc., from unlicensed person. For delivering arms, etc., to person not authorised to possess them
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23 Penalty for breach of rule
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24 Power to confiscate
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25 Search and seizure by Magistrate
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26 Seizure and detention by appropriate Government
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27 Power to exempt
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28 Information to be given regarding offences
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29 Sanction required to certain proceedings under section 19, clause (f)
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30 Searches in the case of offences against section 19, clause (f), how conducted
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31 Operation of other laws not barred
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32 Power to take census of fire-arms
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33 Notice and limitation of proceedings
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