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GUN BARREL PROOF ACT 1868 - SECT 130



130.(1) Subject to subsections (5) and (6) below, a barrel (wherever
manufactured) bearing a convention proof mark shall, if the mark was lawfully
impressed upon the barrel in accordance with the law applicable in the State
to whose official Proof House the mark is attributed by the register, be
exempt from liability to proof under this Act.

(2) Subject to subsections (4), (5) and (6) below, a barrel which would at any
time have been liable to proof under this Act but for subsection (1) above
shall not cease to be exempt from liability to proof under this Act, so long
as it continues to bear the mark, sign or character by virtue of which it was
so exempt under subsection (1), by reason only of the fact that the mark, sign
or character in question has since ceased to be a convention proof mark.

(3) No offence shall be committed under this Act

(a)in respect of any barrel; or

(b)by reference to any barrel made up into a small arm,

(4) The Proof Masters of the Two Companies, acting jointly, may by notice
published as mentioned in section 129(3) of this Act withdraw any exemption
continuing by virtue of subsection (2) above by reference to any mark, sign or
character described in the notice, either generally or in relation to any
class or description of barrels bearing the mark, sign or character in
question.

(5) If a barrel of one sort which is exempt under subsection (1) or (2) above
from liability to proof under this Act by virtue of any mark, sign or
character impressed upon it is in the United Kingdom converted into a barrel
of another sort, the barrel shall cease to be so exempt by virtue of that
mark, sign or character from the time when the conversion is begun.

(6) If a barrel which is exempt under subsection (1) or (2) above from
liability to proof under this Act by virtue of any mark, sign or character
impressed upon it is in the United Kingdom, by any process of manufacture or
by any other means except user and wear and tear, so reduced in substance or
strength that the mark, sign or character does not represent the proof which
the barrel would bear if it were then duly proved in the official Proof House
of the State in question, the barrel shall thereupon cease to be so exempt by
virtue of that mark, sign or character.][


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