Guns, Explosives and Weapons Control (Manufacture, Trading, Supply, Carriage and Disposal of Type 2 Weapons — Class Licence) Order 2025

No. S 366

Guns, Explosives and Weapons Control Act 2021

Guns, Explosives and Weapons Control
(Manufacture, Trading, Supply, Carriage
and Disposal of Type 2 Weapons —
Class Licence) Order 2025

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 56 of the Guns, Explosives and Weapons Control Act 2021, the Minister for Home Affairs makes the following Order:

PART 1

PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order is the Guns, Explosives and Weapons Control (Manufacture, Trading, Supply, Carriage and Disposal of Type 2 Weapons — Class Licence) Order 2025 and comes into operation on 1 July 2025.

Definitions

2.  In this Order —

“arrow” means an arrow designed or adapted for use in the sport of archery according to the international standards established by the World Archery Federation (formerly known as the French Fédération Internationale de Tir à l’Arc) which is an international body established on 4 September 1931;

“authorised by or under the Act”, for a regulated activity involving a weapon, means authorised to carry on the regulated activity, without committing an offence under the Act, because of —

(a) a provision in the Act;

(b) a licence or a class licence; or

(c) an exemption by or under section 87, 88 or 89 of the Act;

“bayonet” means a thrusting, striking or cutting weapon designed to be attached to or at the muzzle of a gun;

“blunted”, in relation to any weapon, means any weapon the cutting edges and points of which are modified to be blunt and not capable of causing serious injury or death;

“bow” means a bow with a draw weight of not more than 27.215 kilograms and excludes any arbalest and any crossbow;

“country” includes territory;

“dagger” means a sharp pointed stabbing instrument (other than a sword or bayonet) designed for hand‑to‑hand combat, and ordinarily capable of being concealed on the person of an individual;

“destroy”, in relation to any Type 2 weapon, means to destroy the Type 2 weapon and rendering it harmless by melting or crushing the Type 2 weapon or by breaking it into pieces;

“dispose” means to destroy or handle with a view to destroying, and includes rendering harmless;

“manufacture”, in relation to a weapon, includes any of the following:

(a) the assembling of a weapon from parts of a weapon (but excludes repair);

(b) the testing of the assembled object or thing as a weapon;

“Singapore journey” has the meaning given by regulation 2(1) of the Guns, Explosives and Weapons Control (Weapons and Noxious Substances) Regulations 2025 (G.N. No. S 361/2025);

“spear” means a thrusting, throwing, striking or cutting weapon to be propelled by human power without the use of any device, and includes a halberd, glaive and a martial arts weapon called “Guandao” or “Yanyuedao”;

“sword” means a thrusting, striking or cutting weapon with a long blade having one or 2 cutting edges and a hilt and includes any bolo, kukri or hooked swords, but excludes any of the following:

(a) a machete;

(b) a parang;

“Type 2 weapon” means any of the following weapons:

(a) an arrow;

(b) a bow;

(c) a blunted bayonet;

(d) a blunted dagger;

(e) a blunted spear;

(f) a blunted spearhead;

(g) a blunted sword;

(h) an article consisting of a handle and an edged but blunted blade, joined by a chain or a combination of chain and metal pieces or steel rods, designed to be used as a whip, and commonly known as a “Chinese whip”, “whip spear”, “7 piece iron chain”, “9 piece iron chain”, “Bian Tzu Chiang” or “Lien Tzu Chiang”.

Application

3.—(1)  This Order does not extend to an individual who is exempt by or under section 87 or 88 of the Act.

(2)  The application of paragraph 4, 6 or 8 to a person is subject to section 66(1) and (2)(c) of the Act.

Made on 26 May 2025.

PANG KIN KEONG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.

[112/2/029; AG/LEGIS/SL/121C/2020/8]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 92 of the Guns, Explosives and Weapons Control Act 2021).