Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Licence for acquisition and pwsessioo of armsof specified deseriptioo in certain cast?.-If the Central Government is of opinion that having regard to the circumstances prevailing in any a: r.z t is necessary or expedient in the public interest that the acquisition, possession or carrying of a r m o!ller than lire- arms should also he regulated, it may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct thrt this section shall apply to the area specified in the notification and thereupon no person shall acquire, have in hii passsision orcarry in that area arms of such class or description as may be specified in %at notification unless he holds in this behalf a licence issued in accordance with ths provisions ofthis Act and the rules made thereunder.