'League of Nations, Conference for the Supervision of the International Trade in Arms and Ammunition and in Implements of War, Geneva, 17th June 1925' [‎8r] (20/138)

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CHAPTER I.
Categories.
Article i.
For the purposes of the present Convention, five Categories of arms, ammuni
tion and implements are established :
CATEGORY I.
Arms, Ammimition and Implements of War exclusively designed and in
tended for Land, Sea or Aerial Warfare.
A.—Arms, ammunition and implements exclusively designed and intended for
land, sea or aerial warfare, which are or shall be comprised in the armament of the
armed forces of any State, or which, if they have been but are no longer comprised
in such armament, are capable of military to the exclusion of any other use, except
such arms, ammunition and implements which, though included in the above
definition, are covered by other Categories.
Such arms, ammunition and implements are comprised in the following twelve
headings :
1. Rifles, muskets, carbines.
2. (a) Machine-guns, automatic rifles and machine-pistols of all calibres ;
{h) Mountings for machine-guns ;
(c) Interrupter gears.
3. Projectiles and ammunition for the arms enumerated in Nos. 1 and 2
above.
4. Gun-sighting apparatus including aerial gun-sights and bomb-sights,
and fire-control apparatus.
6. (a) Cannon, long or short, and howitzers of a calibre less than 5*9
inches (15 cm.)*;
(6) Cannon, long or short, and howitzers, of a calibre of inches
(15 cm.) or above ;
(c) Mortars of all kinds ;
(d) Gun carriages, mountings, recuperators, accessories for mountings.
6. Projectiles and ammunition for the arms enumerated in No. 5 above.
7. Apparatus for the discharge of bombs, torpedoes, depth charges and
other kinds of projectilesr
8. (a) Grenades ;
(6) Bombs ;
(c) Land mines, submarine mines, fixed or floating, depth charges ;
(d) Torpedoes.
9. Appliances for use with the above arms and apparatus.
10. Bayonets.
11. Tanks and armoured cars.
12. Arms and ammunition not specified in the above enumeration.
B.—Component parts, completely finished, of the articles covered by A above,
if capable of being utilised only in the assembly or repair of the said articles, or spare
parts.
4 CATEGORY II.
Arms and Ammunition capable of use both for Military and other purposes.
A.—1. Pistols and revolvers, automatic or self-loading, and developments of
the same, designed for single-handed use cr fired from the shoulder
of a calibre greater than 6 * 5 mm. and length of barrel greater than
10 cm.