law: Arms Act, 1959
  45. Act not to apply in 
  
  certain cases 
  
  
  
  
  
   - Nothing in this 
  
  Act shall apply to -
  (a) Arms or ammunition on 
  
  board any sea-going vessel or any aircraft and forming part of the ordinary 
  
  armament or equipment of such vessel or aircraft ;
  
  
  (b) The acquisition, possession or carrying, the manufacture, repair, 
  
  conversion, test or proof, the sale or transfer or the import, export or 
  
  transport of arms or ammunition -
  (i) By or under orders of 
  
  the Central Government, or  
  
  
  (ii) By a public servant in 
  
  the course of his duty as such public servant, or  
  
  
  (iii) By a member of the 
  
  National Cadet Corps raised and maintained under the National Cadet Corps Act, 
  
  1948 (31 of 1948), or by any officer, enrolled person of the Territorial Army 
  
  raised and maintained under the Territorial Army Act, 1948 (56 of 1948) or by 
  
  any member of any other forces raised and maintained or that may hereafter be 
  
  raised and maintained under any Central Act, or by any member of such other 
  
  forces as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, 
  
  specify, in the course of his duty as such member, officer or enrolled persons.
  (c) Any weapon of an 
  
  obsolete pattern or of antiquarian value or in disrepair which is not capable of 
  
  being used as a firearm either with or without repair ;
  (d) The 
  
  acquisition, possession or carrying by a person of minor parts of arms or 
  
  ammunition which are not intended to be used along with complementary parts 
  
  acquired or possessed by that or any other person.