Firearms Act, 1959 🇳🇬

Nigeria

Preface

Part I – Introductory

1. Short title

2. Interpretation

Part II – Licensing

3. Prohibited firearms

4. Personal firearms

5. Muzzle-loading firearms may be prohibited except under licence

6. Licences and permits not granted as of right

7. Safe custody of firearms

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Part III – Sale and transfer

9. Prohibition on dealing in arms or ammunition except by registered dealer

10. Registered dealer's armouries

11. Sale only to person holding licence

12. Stamping of all firearms sold

Part IV – Public armouries

13. Establishment of public armouries

14. Deposit in and withdrawal from public armoury

15. Disposal in certain cases of deposited arms or ammunition

16. Damage or loss

Part V – Import and export

17. Import and export through prescribed ports

18. Import and export of prohibited firearms and ammunition

19. Restriction on import of personal firearms and ammunition

20. Import by post prohibited

21. Restrictions on export of firearms and ammunition

Part VI – Manufacture and repair of arms

22. Manufacture prohibited

23. Permits for repair of personal firearms

24. Permits for repair of muzzle-loading firearms

25. Dealer may repair

26. Shortening of smooth-bore firearms prohibited

Part VII – Enforcement of act

27. Penalties

28. Production of licence

29. Time for compliance

30. Power to break open container

31. Protection of public officers

Part VIII – Regulations and other powers

32. Power to make regulations

33. Power to amend Schedule

34. Delegation

35. President may prohibit possession or dealing

36. Seizure of unclaimed arms and ammunition

Part IX – Savings

37. Exemption from necessity for firearms licence

Part II – of this Act.

Subsection (2)

38. Armed forces and police

Schedule (Sections 2,3-5.8,23-25.33.)

Part II – Personal firearms

Part III – Muzzle-loading firearms

Firearms Act, 1959

Published in Official Gazette supplement 5 on 22 January 1959
Commenced on 1 February 1959
[This is the version of this document at 31 December 2002.]

An Act to make provision for regulating the possession of and dealing in firearms and ammunition including muzzle-loading firearms, and for matters ancillary thereto.

Part I – Introductory

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Firearms Act.

2. Interpretation

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-"ammunition" means ammunition for any firearm and any component part of any such ammunition, but does not include gun powder or trade powder not intended or used as such a component part;"firearm" means any lethal barreled weapon of any description from which any shot, bullet or other missile can be discharged, and includes a prohibited firearm, a personal firearm and a muzzle-loading firearm of any of the categories referred to in Parts I, II and III respectively of the Schedule, and any component part of any such f…

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Table of Contents

Firearms Act, 1959

Part I – Introductory

1. Short title

2. Interpretation

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