Explosives Act
- Notifying member
- Tonga
- Title
- Explosives Act
- First published
- 31/01/1972
- First EIF
- 31/01/1972
- Latest published
- In force to
- Latest notification
- G/LIC/N/3/TON/2
- Product categories
- List of products subject to licensing
- Attachment
- Nature of licensing
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Non-automatic
- Administrative purpose/measure being implemented
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- Regulate imports of arms, ammunition or fissionable materials and safeguard national security
- Administrative body(ies) for submission of applications
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- Minister's Office/Tonga Police
- Tonga Police Headquarters, Maui Kisikisi Rd, Longolongo, Tongatapu, Tonga
- (+676) 7401611
- Contact point for information on eligibility
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- Armoury/Tonga Police
- Tonga Police Training College, Maui Kisikisi Rd, Longolongo, Tongatapu, Tonga
- (+676) 7401600
- Expected duration of licensing procedure
- Ongoing
- Found by secretariat
- No
- Related document symbols
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- G/LIC/N/2/TON/2
- Source
- Notes
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Explosives Act 2020
Section 2(a)&(b) - licensing
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G/LIC/N/2/TON/2
Cap.7.05
This Act is to repeal the Explosives Substances Act and to make better provision for the regulation, use, possession, transport, manufacture, sale, storage, import and export of explosives.
Gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, dynamite, guncotton, blasting powders, fulminate of mercury or of other metals, coloured fires, and every other substance, whether similar to those abovementioned or not, used or manufactured with a view to produce a practical effect by explosion or a pyrotechnic effect; and includes fog-signals, fireworks, fuses, rockets, percussion caps, detonators, cartridges, ammunition of all descriptions, and every adaptation or preparation of an explosive as above defined.
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