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GUN BARREL PROOF ACT 1868 - SECT 129

Convention proof marks.

129.(1) In this Act "convention proof mark" means any mark, sign or character
of which a specimen is for the time being included in the register of proof
marks published by the Permanent International Commission for the Proof of
Small Arms established under a Convention done at Brussels on 1st July 1969
(in this section and in sections 130 and 131 of this Act referred to as "the
register"), not being a mark, sign or character included therein as a United
Kingdom proof mark.

(2) The Proof Master of each of the Two Companies shall keep at the Proof
House a copy of the register for the time being in force, together with copies
of any documents published by the Permanent International Commission amending
that register; and the copy or copies so kept shall be open for public
inspection without charge at all reasonable times.

(3) The Proof Masters of the Two Companies respectively shall from time to
time, by advertisement published

(a)in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes;

(b)in a local newspaper circulating in Birmingham; and

(c)in daily newspapers circulating generally in England and Wales, in Scotland
and in Northern Ireland respectively;

Exemption of barrels with convention proof marks.

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