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GUN BARREL PROOF ACT 1868 - SECT 4

| 3. This Act shall not in any way interfere with the power of Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, from time to time to establish public Proof Houses in such places and under such regulations as to the care and management thereof as to Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, may seem fit.

4. In the construction of this Act the following words and expressions have
the following meanings, unless there be in the subject or context something
repugnant to or inconsistent with such construction; to wit,"the Guardians"
means "the Guardians of the Birmingham Proof House" as incorporated under the
recited Act and as continued and constituted under this Act:["the Permanent
International Commission" means the Permanent International Commission for the
proof of small arms mentioned in section 129(1) of this Act;]"barrel" includes
every barrel of every small arm, and every breech of every small arm, and
every part of every small arm which would in the user of the small arm contain
all or any part of the charge of the small arm, and every part of every small
arm in, from, or through which part in the user of the small arm all or any
part of the charge thereof would be exploded or discharged:"double barrel"
includes every barrel of or constructed for every small arm having any number
of barrels more than one:"definitive proof" means proof of a barrel not liable
in any subsequent stage of manufacture to be reduced in strength before it
forms part of a small arm in a finished state:"stamp" includes every stamp,
die, punch, tool, and other instrument whatsoever by means whereof any mark
can be made on any metal whatsoever:["convention proof mark" has the meaning
given in section 129(1) of this Act;]...

(c)in Northern Ireland, #1,000;]

The several weights by this Act or any Schedule thereto prescribed [which are
expressed in imperial units] are avoirdupois weight.

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