In this Act unless the context otherwise requires:

"Board" means governing board of the Commission

"Convention" means the Economic Community of West African States Convention on Small Am] 5 and Light Weapons;

" Economic Community" means Economic Community of West African States;

"light weapons" means portable arms designed to be used by several persons working together in a team and which includes

(a) heavy machine guns,

(b) portable grenade launchers, mobile or mounted,

(c) portable anti-aircraft cannons,

(d) portable anti-tank missile launchers or rocket launchers,

(e) portable anti-tank cannons, non-recoil guns,

(f) portable anti-aircraft missile launchers; and

(g) mortars with a calibre of less than 1 00millimetres.

"Minister" means the Minister responsible for the Interior;

"other related materials" means the components, parts or replacement parts of a firearm that are essential to the Operation of the firearm;

"small arms" means arms used by one person and which includes

(a) firearms and other destructive arms or devices such as exploding bomb, an incendiary bomb or a gas bomb, a grenade, a rocket launcher, a missile, a missile system;

(b) revolvers and pistols with automatic loading;

(c) rifles and carbines;

(d) machine guns;

(e) assault rifles; and

(f) light machine guns used by one person.