The Indian Arms Act, 1878, 11 of 1878 (Rep., Pun Act 15 of 1961)

Section 32. The Local Government may from time to time, by notification in the local official Gazette, direct a

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32. The Local Government may from time to time, by notification in the local official Gazette, direct a census to be taken of all fire-arms in any local area, and empower any person by name or in virtue of his office to take such census. On the issue of any such notification, all persons possessing any such arms in such area shall furnish to the person so empowered such information as he may require in reference thereto, and shall produce such arms to him if he so requires. Any person refusing or neglecting to produce any such arms when so required, shall be punished with imprisonment. Sanction required to certain proceedings under section 19, cl. (f). Searches in the case of offences against section 19, clause (f), how conducted. Operation of other laws not barred. Power to take census of fire-arms. 222 Arms. [ACT XI Copies of the original document image and the provided markdown are to the right of the original document image. 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(See section 3). | Number and year. | Title. | Extent of repeal. | | --- | --- | --- | | XVIII of 1841 | An Act for consolidating and amending the enactments concerning the exportation of Military Stores. | So much as has not been repealed. | | XXX of 1854 | An Act to provide for the levy of Duties of Customs in the Arracan, Pegu, Martaban and Tenasserim Provinces. | In the preamble, the words "and that the exportation of munitions of war from any of these Provinces into foreign States should be prohibited." Section 11. | | XXXI of 1860 | An Act relating to the manufacture, importation and sale of Arms and Ammunition, and for regulating the right to keep and use the same, and to give power of disarming in certain cases. | So much as has not been repealed. | | VI of 1866 | An Act to continue Act No. XXXI of 1860 (relating to the manufacture, importation and sale of Arms and Ammunition, and for regulating the right to keep and use the same, and to give power of disarming in certain cases), and for other purposes. | The whole. | | III of 1872 | The Santhál Parganas Settlement Regulation. | So much of the schedule as relates to Act XXXI of 1860 and Act VI of 1866. | | IX of 1874 | The Arakan Hills District Laws Regulation, 1874. | So much of the schedule as relates to Act XVIII of 1841. | | XV of 1874 | An Act for declaring the local extent of certain Enactments, and for other purposes. | So much of the first schedule as relates to Act XVIII of 1841. | 224 Arms. [ACT XI THE SECOND SCHEDULE. (See section 8.) | Item | Rs. A. | | --- | --- | | (1) Fire-arms other than pistols, for each | 50 | | (2) Barrels for the same, whether single or double, for each | 30 | | (3) Pistols, for each | 15 | | (4) Barrels for the same, whether single or double, for each | 10 | | (5) Springs used for fire-arms, for each | 8 | | (6) Gun-stocks, sights, blocks and rollers, for each | 5 | | (7) Revolver-breeches, for each cartridge which they will carry | 2 8 | | (8) Extractors, nippers, heel-plates, pins, screws, tangs, bolts, thumb-pieces, triggers, trigger-guards, hammers, pistons, plates, and all other parts of a fire-arm not herein otherwise provided for, and all tools used for cleaning or putting together or loading the same, for each | 1 8 | | (9) Machines for making or loading or closing cartridges, for each | 10 | | (10) Machines for capping cartridges, for each | 2 8 | *Exception.*—Articles falling under the 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th or 10th head of this schedule, when they appertain to a fire-arm falling under the 1st or 3rd head and are fitted into the same case with such fire-arm.

Source: India Code