Arms Act (Amendment) Regulations, 2020

L.N. 201 of 2020

ARMS ACT

(CAP. 480)

Arms Act (Amendment) Regulations, 2020

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 40 of the Arms

Act, the Minister responsible for the Police has made the following

regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Arms Act (Amendment)

Regulations, 2020 and these regulations shall be read and construed as

one with the Arms Act, hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act".

Article 39 of the principal Act shall be amended as follows

(a) paragraph (b) thereof shall be renumbered as

paragraph (c); and

(b) immediately before paragraph (c) as renumbered

there shall be added the following new paragraph

"(b) the Detention Service may acquire pepper-spray,

pepper-spray launchers and similar equipment designed to

spray pepper. No member of the Detention Service shall be

guilty of an offence against this Act if such person is in

possession of such equipment in the course of his duties and

such equipment belongs to the Government of Malta;".

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