For the purposes of the Act these rules, "arms" or "ammunition" shall be of the categories specified in Columns 2 and 3, respectively of Schedule I and references to any category of arms or ammunition in these rules shall be construed accordingly.
(e) Head of Indian Mission, or Central Government.
Political Officer.
(f) Other Authorityspecially empowered Authority that empoweredAppellate. authority officers.
(1) (2)
(a) Tahsildar; or 1st or 2nd class Magistrate, or Sub-divisional Magistrate.
(b)Additional District Magistrate, District Magistrate.
(c) Commissioner of Police
(d) Commissioner of the Division or, in a Union territory, the Administrator thereof.
District Magistrate.
(i) Commissioner of the Division, or in a Union territory, the Administrator thereof, or
(ii) in the Sate of Madras Andhra Pradesh and Kerala, the Board of Revenue, or
(iii) in the State of Jammu and Kashmir, West Bengal, Gujarat and any other State, not being a Stale mentioned in entry (ii) above, in which there is no post of Commissioner of a Division, the State Government.
State Government.
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