<p class="title">Names of all arms licence holders will be included in a national database and will be issued a unique identification number (UIN) as part of government's move to ensure that such documents are not issued to people with criminal antecedents.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Ministry of Home Affairs issued a notification last Thursday. The decision has been taken by exercising powers under Section 44 of the Arms Act, 1959 (54 of 1959) by amending the Arms Rules, 2016 and these rules will be called the Arms (Second Amendment) Rules, 2018.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Every licensing and renewing authority will have to enter the data in the National Database of Arms Licenses system, which will generate a UIN, and with effect from 1 April, 2019, any arms licence without UIN shall be considered invalid," the ministry said in a notification.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Any existing licencee holding multiple licences shall on or before April 1 make an application for grant of a single licence in respect of all firearms held by him or her under his or her UIN to the concerned licensing authority, it added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Where the applicant applying for a licence for restricted category of arms or ammunition is also a holder of a licence for permissible category, or where the applicant applying for permissible category of arms or ammunition is also a holder of a licence for restricted category, the licensing authority concerned shall issue a new licence for restricted or permissible category of arms or ammunition under the existing UIN of the licencee, the notification said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Separate licence books shall be generated in case of each licence...separately for restricted and permissible categories of arms and ammunition with an overall ceiling of three firearms under a single UIN," it said.</p>
<p class="title">Names of all arms licence holders will be included in a national database and will be issued a unique identification number (UIN) as part of government's move to ensure that such documents are not issued to people with criminal antecedents.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Ministry of Home Affairs issued a notification last Thursday. The decision has been taken by exercising powers under Section 44 of the Arms Act, 1959 (54 of 1959) by amending the Arms Rules, 2016 and these rules will be called the Arms (Second Amendment) Rules, 2018.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Every licensing and renewing authority will have to enter the data in the National Database of Arms Licenses system, which will generate a UIN, and with effect from 1 April, 2019, any arms licence without UIN shall be considered invalid," the ministry said in a notification.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Any existing licencee holding multiple licences shall on or before April 1 make an application for grant of a single licence in respect of all firearms held by him or her under his or her UIN to the concerned licensing authority, it added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Where the applicant applying for a licence for restricted category of arms or ammunition is also a holder of a licence for permissible category, or where the applicant applying for permissible category of arms or ammunition is also a holder of a licence for restricted category, the licensing authority concerned shall issue a new licence for restricted or permissible category of arms or ammunition under the existing UIN of the licencee, the notification said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Separate licence books shall be generated in case of each licence...separately for restricted and permissible categories of arms and ammunition with an overall ceiling of three firearms under a single UIN," it said.</p>
