Punjab Arms Rules 2023 Arms license Fee Schedule

The caretaker Punjab government has started issuing arms licenses under the Punjab Arms Rules 2023. The caretaker Punjab government will increase the fee for making and renewing weapons licenses up to 2,000 percent. The Supervisory Board has approved the amendment of the Punjab Arms Rules 2023, the fee for obtaining a personal arms license has been increased from 10,000 to 50,000 rupees, and the Fee for renewing a personal arms license has been increased from 1,000 to 5,000 rupees. The Punjab Cabinet has approved the Arms Rules License 2023. Now citizens who want arms license will be able to apply online.

Punjab Arms Rules 2023 Arms license Fee Schedule

The Fee for making arms license for private institutions and private companies has been fixed at 50 thousand rupees, the fee for making the license of the Punjab Interior Department “All Pakistan” has been fixed at 100,000 rupees, the arms license processing fee has been increased from 1400 to 2 thousand rupees. Any citizen of Punjab will be able to apply for arms license online at home. According to Punjab Interior Department, after the implementation of the new rules, the approved licenses will also be considered cancelled. Those citizens whose licenses have been approved should complete the process. The interior department will re-process all the approved applications based on the new rules.

The fee for making a duplicate arms license has been increased from one thousand to five thousand rupees, the fee for increasing the number of rounds minus the number of rounds in the arms license has been increased to twelve rupees per bullet, the fee for changing the weapon or bore on the arms license has been fixed at five thousand rupees. The fee for transfer of arms license on the basis of inheritance has been fixed at 10 thousand rupees, the fee for transfer of arms license at the home of the license holder has been fixed at 300 rupees. The cabinet committee has also reduced the All Pakistan arms license fee from one lakh rupees to only 15 thousand rupees.

Citizens of Punjab can also apply online for Arms License for Personal, Institutional, Security Company or Business. Along with the issuance of arms license, the license fee has also been increased by 150% by the government, earlier the fee was 20 thousand rupees, which has now been increased to 50 thousand rupees. To apply for an arms license, a candidate must be a permanent resident of Pakistan, possess a national identity card and be domiciled in Punjab. Apart from this, the candidate should be above 20 years of age, his name should be included in the tax payers and he should not have any criminal record.

On the demand of arms dealers and citizens, the arms license fees have been greatly reduced by 85 thousand rupees under Arms Row 2023. In this regard, the supervisory Punjab government has reduced the fee from one lakh rupees to 15 thousand rupees for the entire province. Business and Privatization approved the Punjab Arms Rules 2023.