{"id":223265,"date":"2019-12-16T11:30:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=223265"},"modified":"2021-07-30T09:46:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T04:16:25","slug":"arms-amendment-act-2019-receives-presidents-assent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/12\/16\/arms-amendment-act-2019-receives-presidents-assent\/","title":{"rendered":"Arms (Amendment) Act, 2019, receives President&#8217;s assent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The President of India granted assent to the Arms (Amendment) Act, 2019 on 13-12-2019.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Bill seeks<\/strong>\u00a0to enhance the punishment for existing offences like illegal manufacture, sale, transfer, etc.; illegal acquiring, possessing or carrying prohibited arms or prohibited ammunition; and illegal manufacture, sale, transfer, conversion, import, export, etc., of firearms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>It also proposes to define new offences and prescribing punishment for them<\/strong>, such as for taking away firearms from police or armed forces, involvement in organized crime syndicate, illicit trafficking including smuggled firearms of foreign make or prohibited arms and prohibited ammunition, use of firearms in rash and negligent manner in celebratory gunfire endangering human life, etc. Further, the Bill seeks to enhance the period of arms license from three years to five years and also to issue arms license in its electronic form to prevent forgery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>**Read the Act here &#8212;<\/strong><\/span> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/egazette.nic.in\/WriteReadData\/2019\/214662.pdf\">The Arms (Amendment) Act, 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Ministry of Law and Justice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>[Notification dt. 13-12-2019]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President of India granted assent to the Arms (Amendment) Act, 2019 on 13-12-2019. 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