Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Power to make roles-(I) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. (2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely :- (a) the appointm~nt, jurisdiction, control and functions of licensing authorities l[including the areas and the categories of arms and ammunition for which they may grant licences]; (b) the form and particulars of application for the grant or renewal of a licence ant where the application is for the renewal of a licence, the time within which it shall be made; (c) the form in which and the conditions subject to which any licence may be granted or' refused, renewed, varied, suspended or revoked; (d) where no period has been specified in this Act, the period for which any licence shall continue to be in force; (e) the fees payablc in respect of any application for the grant or renewal of a licence and in respect of any licene granted or renewed and the manner of paying the same; ( f ) the manney in which the maker's name, the manufacturer's number or other identification mark of a firearm sball be stamped or otherwise shown thereon; (g) the procedure for the test or proof of any firearms; (h) the firearms that may be used in the course of training, the age limitsof persons who may use them and the conditions for their use by such persons; -- - - - I . Ins. by Act2501 1983, s. 16(w.e.f.22-6-1983). 20 Artm Act. 1959 [Seaions 44--46 J (1) the authority to whom appeals may be preferred under section 18, the procedure to b. followed by such authority and the period within which appeals shall be preferred, the fees to be paid in respect of such appeals and the refund of such fees; (j) the mainten- of records or accounts of anything done under a licance other than a licence under section 3 or section 4, the form of, and the entries to be made in, such reoords or accounts and the exhibition of such records or accounts to any police o 5 m or to any 051x1 of Goveinment empowered in this behalf, (k) the entry and inspection by any police o5wr or by any officer of Government empowand in th~s behalf of anv ~remiscs or other dace in which a r m 01 nmmunitioo arc or is manu- factured or in which or ammunitioi are or is kept by a manufacturer of or dealer in such arms or ammunition and the exhibition of the same to such offioer; (0 tlls conditions subject tu whlch atms or ammunition may he deposited with a licanscd dealer or in a unit amoury as required by sub-seeiion (I) of section 21 and the period on the ex- pity of wbich the things so deposited may be forfeited. (m) any other matter is to be, or may be, prescribed. (3) Every rule made under this section shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made before each house of Parliament while it is in session for a total peiiod of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in l[two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immedia- tely following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid]; both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not ht made, the rule shall there after have deot only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may he, so, however, that any s~ich modification or annulment shall be without prejudice tc the validity of anything previously done under t h t mle.