52. From of licences. - (1) A licence in Form II, Form III, Form III-A, Form IV, Form V or Form VI, if granted for more than a year, to a person other than a bona fide tourist as defined in Section 10 (1) (b) of the Act, shall be in book form and shall contain the latest photograph of the licensee.
(2) When a licence is granted in Form II, Form III, Form IV, Form V or Form VI for the possession of arms to be acquired by the licensee subsequent to the grant of the licence, the authority granting the licence shall, at the time of granting the same, direct that within a period specified by him in this behalf which he may, from time to time, extend, the arms covered by the licence shall be acquired and that the licence or the arms or both shall be produced for his inspection and if within the period specified or extended,-the licensee fails to acquire the arms and to produce the licence, or the arms or both, as the case may be, the licence shall cease to be in force:
Provided that, if during the period so specified or extended the licensee wishes to acquire and possess any weapon or weapons of a different description and the licensing authority has no objection to allow the acquisition and possession of such weapon or weapons, he may amend the licence accordingly:
Provided further that-
(i) Where the licensing authority is the State Government the licensee residing at any place within the State in which the licence was issued may produce the licence or the arms or both for inspection before such authority as the State Government may, by a general or special order specify in this behalf,
(ii) Where the licensing authority is the State Government, the licensee may, if he changes his place of residence from one State to another State, produce the licence or arms or both for inspection before the Government of the second-mentioned State or any authority, which that Government may, by general or special order specify in this behalf;
(iii) Where the licensing authority is other than the State Government, the licensee may, if he changes his place of residence, produce the licence or arms or both for inspection before the licensing authority of the place of his new residence to which the licensee may have shifted after the grant of licence;
Within the period so specified or extended and authority other than the licensing authority who inspected the arms as well as the licensee shall intimate the fact of the inspection to the authority who issued the licence.
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