Armament > National control of the manufacture of and trade in arms

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BELGIUM
Law of June 30th, 1931, amended by the Law of July 30th, 1934 (Recueil des
lois 1931, page 1298, and 1934, page 1084).
l goods. Article 1.—If, under extraordinary or abnormal circumstances, the vital
interests of the country should be imperilled, the King may, by a decree
passed in the Council of Ministers, regulate the import, export and transit
of all goods, and fix special duties to be levied at the time of delivery ot the
authorisations granted by application of the said regulations.1
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Law of January 3rd, 1933 (Recueil des lois 1933, page 1266).
Defensive
fire-arms.
Military
fire-arms.
Article 4: [see above under “ 1. Manufacture ”].
Article 5: [see below under “ 3. Internal Trade ”].
Article 6.—Persons not having made a declaration in the capacity of
arms manufacturer or dealer or arms artisan may import defensive fire arms
only if in possession of authorisation to acquire such arms, in accordance
with Article 5, or of an import permit.
Article 8 : [see below under “ 3. Internal Trade ”].
Article 9.—The importation of military fire-arms is permitted only to
arms manufacturers or dealers, arms artisans and persons provided with
authorisation to possess the arm imported as laid down in Article 11.2
Royal Decree of June 14th, 1933 (Recueil des lois 1933, page 1278).
Article 12—The import of a defensive fire-arm by a private person,
with the exception of arms acquired or registered in Belgium and accom¬
panied by the certificate of authorisation to acquire arms, referred to in
Article 10 3 above, or the certificate referred to in Article 27 below, shall be
subiect to an authorisation which shall be delivered by the police commissary
(commissaire de police) of his place of domicile, and, in communes where
there is no commissary, by the chief of police (commandant de gendarmerie),
or, if the person be not domiciled in Belgium, by the Minister of Justice.
Article 13 —1. The rules laid down for authorisation of acquisition in
Article 6, paragraph 2, and Articles 7, 8 and 10 3 of the present decree,
shall apply to the import authorisations referred to in the previous article.
1 See Royal Decree of August 19th, 1936, below. , . , • • j- i Q„+v.r.
2 Article 11.—The possession of military fire-arms is prohibited to private individuals unless autho¬
rised by the Governor of the Province.
3 See below under “ 3. Internal Trade ”.
Defensive
fire-arms
(Article 6
of the Law of
January3rd,
1933).