LAW ON THE WEAPONRY FUND OF THE Republic of Lithuania UNDER the MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR of the Republic of LithuaniA 11 July 1996 No I-1485 Vilnius (As last amended on 25 May 2010 – No XI-841) CHAPTER ONE GENERAL PROVISIONS Article
- Purpose of the Law This Law shall establish the status, legal basis of the activities, goals, functions, structure and financing of the Weaponry Fund of the Republic of Lithuania under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania. Article
- Main Definitions of this Law The concepts of a “natural person” and a “legal person”, with the exception of Article 2 of this Law, shall be interpreted in this Law as they are defined in the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on the Control of Circulation of Explosives. Article
- The Weaponry Fund of the Republic of Lithuania under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania
- The Weaponry Fund of the Republic of Lithuania under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania (hereinafter referred to as the "the Weaponry Fund") shall be an establishment under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania, which supplies state institutions and establishments, legal persons and branches, set in the Republic of Lithuania, of enterprises of the Member States of the European Union and other countries of the European Economic Area, natural persons with weapons, ammunition, explosives, special devices, and which carries out other functions laid down in this Law.
- The Weaponry Fund shall be a public legal person, which has bank accounts, the seal bearing the State Emblem of Lithuania and the legend "The Weaponry Fund of the Republic of Lithuania under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania". Article
- Legal Basis of the Activity of the Weaponry Fund
- The Weaponry Fund shall act in compliance with the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania, this Law and other laws, international treaties of the Republic of Lithuania, the regulations of the Weaponry Fund, and other legal acts.
- The Government shall approve the regulations of the Weaponry Fund. CHAPTER TWO GOALS, FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES OF THE WEAPONRY FUND Article
- Goals of the Weaponry Fund The goals of the Weaponry Fund shall be to supply state institutions and establishments, natural persons and legal persons with weapons, ammunition, explosives or special devices. Article
- Functions and Rights of the Weaponry Fund
- The Weaponry Fund shall perform the following functions: 1) to collect, analyse and store information about weapons, ammunition, explosives, special devices, new types and models of weapons, ammunition, explosives or special devices, their technical data and trends of their development; 2) to furnish to state institutions and establishments, natural persons and legal persons the available information about the weapons, ammunition, explosives or special devices needed by them; 3) to draw up each year annual purchase plans according to applications submitted by state institutions and establishments regarding the acquisition of weapons, ammunition, explosives, special devices needed by them, and, pursuant to the approved purchase plans and contracts concluded with the state institutions and establishments, to purchase and transfer to the state institutions and establishments or to sell to them the weapons, ammunition, explosives and special devices; 4) to keep the State Weapons Register in accordance with the procedure laid down by the Government; 5) to purchase and sell short firearms classified in categories B, C, ammunition for such weapons, explosives or special devices to natural and legal persons; 6) to control within its competence the circulation of weapons, ammunition, explosives, special devices in the territory of the Republic of Lithuania, and to issue certificates of the final user in the cases and according to the procedure laid down by legal acts; ) 7) to organize realisation or destruction of the weapons and ammunition forfeited in accordance with the procedure laid down by legal acts; 8) to collect data on the circulation of firearms, ammunition, explosives in the Republic of Lithuania and to furnish such information to the interested institutions or international organizations; 9) in the cases established by laws and other legal acts of the Republic of Lithuania to issue licences to engage in appropriate economic and business activities – manufacture of explosives, trade in explosives, use of explosives, manufacture of weapons, accessories of weapons classified in Category A, ammunition, their parts, repair of weapons, conversion of weapons and ammunition – and to exercise the supervision of such activities; 10) to carry out other functions prescribed by legal acts.
- The Weaponry Fund shall enjoy the following rights: 1) the exclusive right to supply the state institutions and establishments, except the Ministry of National Defence and the Army of Lithuania, with weapons classified in category A, ammunition, their parts, short firearms classified in categories B, C, ammunition intended only for short firearms, their parts; 2) the exclusive right to trade in short firearms classified in categories B, C, ammunition intended only for short firearms, their parts within the territory of the Republic of Lithuania; 3) to import into the Republic of Lithuania, to export from it the weapons classified in all categories, ammunition, parts of weapons and ammunition, explosives, special devices; 4) other rights defined by laws and other legal acts of the Republic of Lithuania. Article
- Duty to Furnish Information On the reasoned request of the Weaponry Fund, state or municipal institutions and establishments, registers or other legal persons as well as natural persons must furnish for free to the Weaponry Fund the data necessary to fulfil its goals and functions. CHAPTER THREE THE STRUCTURE AND PERSONNEL OF THE WEAPONRY FUND Article
- Structure of the Weaponry Fund
- The Weaponry Fund shall be headed by the Director. He shall be appointed and dismissed by the Minister of the Interior in accordance with the procedure laid down by the Law on Civil Service. The Director of he Weaponry Fund shall be subordinate to the Minister of the Interior.
- The Director of the Weaponry Fund may have a deputy. He shall be appointed and dismissed by the Director of the Weaponry Fund in accordance with the procedure laid down by the Law on Civil Service.
- The Weaponry Fund shall consist of organisational units necessary to carry out the functions of the Weaponry Fund.
- The structure of the administration of the Weaponry Fund and the list of positions therein shall be set and approved by the Minister of the Interior on the recommendation of the Director of the Weaponry Fund. Article
- Personnel of the Weaponry Fund
- The personnel of the Weaponry Fund shall comprise civil servants and the employees working under employment contracts.
- The status of civil servants of the Weaponry Fund, conditions of their remuneration and social guarantees shall be defined by the Law on Civil Service. The status of the employees working under employment contracts, conditions of their remuneration and social guarantees shall be defined by the Labour Code and other legal acts. CHAPTER FOUR FINANCING OF THE WEAPONRY FUND Article
- Financing of the Weaponry Fund
- The Weaponry Fund shall be a budgetary institution financed with the funds of the State budget. The manager of appropriations of the State budget designated for the Weaponry Fund shall be the Director of the Weaponry Fund.
- Purchase of weapons, ammunition, explosives and special devices carried out by the Weaponry Fund according to applications of state institutions and establishments and on their assignment shall be financed from the appropriations approved for appropriate state institutions and establishments in the State budget and the State investment programme for an appropriate year, after the said institutions and establishments have transferred the funds designated for the purchase to the Weaponry Fund.
- Purchase according to applications of other legal persons and natural persons shall be financed by transferring to the Weaponry Fund the funds designated for the purchase pursuant to the procedure laid down in sales and purchase agreements.
- Assignments of state institutions and establishments to the Weaponry Fund for the purchase of weapons, ammunition, explosives and special devices shall be executed in the form of agency agreements. I promulgate this Law passed by the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania. PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC ALGIRDAS BRAZAUSKAS