The Firearms and Ammunition Control Act

Jurisdiction: Tanzania
Instrument: Act or statute
Citation: The Firearms and Ammunition Control Act
Version: Undated source snapshot
Language: en
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Each State Party must have an effective licensing or authorization system for exporting and importing firearms, their parts and components, and ammunition, including measures for international transit. Before issuing export licences or authorizations for certain firearms shipments, each State Party must verify the importing State’s import licence or authorization and the transit State’s written non-objection. Export and import licences or authorizations, together with accompanying documents, must include specified information. The importing State Party must, if requested, tell the exporting State Party when it receives the dispatched shipment of firearms, parts and components, or ammunition. Each State party must take available measures to make licensing or authorization procedures secure and to allow documents to be verified or validated.

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Each State Party must have an effective licensing or authorization system for exporting and importing firearms, their parts and components, and ammunition, including measures for international transit.

1. Each State Party shall establish or maintain an effective system of export and import licensing or authorization, as well as of measures on international transit, for the transfer of firearms, their parts and components and ammunition.
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Application
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Before issuing export licences or authorizations for certain firearms shipments, each State Party must verify the importing State’s import licence or authorization and the transit State’s written non-objection.

2. Before issuing export licences or authorizations for shipments of firearms, their parts and components and ammunition, each State Party shall verify: (a) That the importing States have issued import licences or authorizations; and (b) That, without prejudice to bilateral or multilateral agreements or arrangements favouring landlocked States, the transit States have, at a minimum, given notice in writing, prior to shipment, that they have no objection to the transit. 371 ©2025 Government of Tanzania. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed without permission of OAG. THE FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION CONTROL ACT [CAP. 223 R.E. 2023]
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Interpretation
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Export and import licences or authorizations, together with accompanying documents, must include specified information.

3. The export and import licence or authorization and accompanying documentation together shall contain information that, at a minimum, shall include the place and the date of issuance, the date of expiration, the country of export, the country of import, the final recipient, a description and the quantity of the firearms, their parts and components and ammunition and, whenever there is transit, the countries of transit. The information contained in the import licence must be provided in advance to the transit States.
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National Focal Point
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The importing State Party must, if requested, tell the exporting State Party when it receives the dispatched shipment of firearms, parts and components, or ammunition.

4. The importing State Party shall, upon request, inform the exporting State Party of the receipt of the dispatched shipment of firearms, their parts and components or ammunition.
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Establishment of Committee
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Each State party must take available measures to make licensing or authorization procedures secure and to allow documents to be verified or validated.

5. Each State party shall, within available means, take such measures as may be necessary to ensure that licensing or authorization procedures are secure and that the authenticity of licensing or authorization documents can be verified or validated.
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Composition of Committee
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States Parties may use simplified procedures for the temporary import, export, and transit of firearms, parts, components, and ammunition for verifiable lawful purposes.

6. States Parties may adopt simplified procedures for the temporary import and export and the transit of firearms, their parts and components and ammunition for verifiable lawful purposes such as hunting, sport shooting, evaluation, exhibitions or repairs. 372 ©2025 Government of Tanzania. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed without permission of OAG.

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