ARMS AND AMMUNITION AMENDMENT ACT NO. 65 OF 1993

[ASSENTED TO 24 MAY, 1993]

[DATE OF COMMENCEMENT: 1 JUNE, 1993]

(English text signed by the State President)

ACT

To amend the Arms and Ammunition Act, 1969, in order to make the imposition of
minimum sentences obligatory in the case of certain offences; to grant indemnity
from prosecution under certain circumstances; to repeal section 22 of the
Criminal Law Second Amendment Act, 1992; and to provide for matters connected
therewith.

1.   Amends section 39 (2) of the Arms and Ammunition Act, No. 75 of 1969, by
substituting paragraph (aA).

2.   Indemnity from prosecution.—Any person who has in his possession in
contravention of the provisions of subsection (1) of section 32 of the Arms and
Ammunition Act, 1969 (Act No. 75 of 1969), any armament mentioned in paragraph
(a), (b) or (c) of the said subsection of a kind, class or make determined by
the Minister of Law and Order by notice in the Gazette, and surrenders, within
60 days after the commencement of this Act, such armament to a member of the
South African Police on duty at a police station, shall not be prosecuted for a
contravention of the said subsection (1) because he has such armament in his
possession and, if he imported it into the Republic, because he so imported it.

3.   Repeals section 22 of the Criminal Law Second Amendment Act, No. 126 of
1992.

4.   Short title and commencement.—This Act shall be called the Arms and
Ammunition Amendment Act, 1993, and shall come into operation on a date fixed by
the State President by proclamation in the Gazette.