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ARMS AND EXPLOSIVES ACT (CHAPTER 58) DECLARATION AND DEFINITION OF ARMS AND EXPLOSIVES UNDERSECTION 2

ARMS AND EXPLOSIVES ACT

(CHAPTER 58)

DECLARATION AND DEFINITION OF ARMS AND EXPLOSIVES UNDER SECTION 2

S 36/60

REVISED EDITION 2002

(30th November 2002)

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

DECLARATION AND DEFINITION OF ARMS AND EXPLOSIVES UNDER SECTION 2

The provisions of the Arms and Explosives Act have been declared to apply tothe arms and explosives defined below —

“arms” includes firearms, air guns, air pistols, automatic guns,automatic pistols or any other kind of gun or weapon from which any shot, bullet or other missile can be discharged, or noxious fumes can beemitted, and any part or parts thereof, but does not include a cannon known as bedil or meriam. For the purposes of this definition

“firearms” means a lethal barrelled weapon of any description butdoes not include a blowpipe of the type in common use in Brunei Darussalam.

“explosives” includes gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gun-cotton, blasting powder, fulminate of mercury or of other metals, coloured fires, and every other substance, whether similarto those above-mentioned or not, used or manufactured with a view to produce apractical effect by explosion or pyrotechnic effect, and any component part ofsubstance of any explosives; and, in particular —

(a) fog signals, fireworks, fuses, rockets, percussion caps,detonators, cartridges and ammunition of all descriptions and every adaption or preparation or an explosive as above defined;

(b) sand crackers which hitherto have been known as Sua Phau or KimChin Phau and other types of crackers which have been known as Seng Hiong Phauor Seng Hio Phau, Tek Phau and Oe Ji Phau or Weh Chi or all other similar types,of crackers; and

(c) any substance declared to be an explosive by His Majesty theSultan and Yang Di-Pertuan in Council by notification in the Gazette .