In this Act, unless the context indicates otherwise—

"anti-handling device"

means an anti-handling device as defined in the Schedule to the Anti-Personnel Mines Prohibition Act, 2003 (Act No. 36 of 2003);

"blinding laser weapon"

means a laser weapon specifically designed, as its sole combat function or as one of its combat functions, to cause permanent blindness to the naked eye;

"booby-trap"

means any device or material which is designed, constructed or adapted to kill or injure and which functions unexpectedly when a person disturbs or approaches an apparently harmless object or performs an apparently safe act;

"civilian objects"

means all objects which are not military objectives;

"component part"

means any identifiable component designed or adapted to form an essential and integral part of any weapon prohibited by this Act;

"concentration of civilians"

means any concentration of civilians, be it permanent or temporary, such as in inhabited parts of cities, or inhabited towns or villages, or as in camps or columns of refugees or evacuees, or groups of nomads;

"Convention"

means the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects of 10 October 1980, acceded to by the Republic on 13 September 1995, and its Protocols;

"Department of Defence"

means the Defence Secretariat, the South African National Defence Force and any auxiliary service defined in the Defence Act, 2002 (Act No. 42 of 2002);

"employee of the Department of Defence"

means a member of the South African National Defence Force appointed in terms of the Defence Act, 2002 (Act No. 42 of 2002), or an employee of the Department of Defence appointed in terms of the Public Service Act, 1994 (Proclamation No. 103 of 1994);

"export"

means to supply another person outside the Republic with prohibited weapons, whether or not that is done in exchange for currency or any other commodity or benefit;

"import"

means to bring prohibited weapons into any part of the Republic or to cause such weapons to be so brought in, whether or not that is done in exchange for currency or any other commodity or benefit;

"incendiary weapon"

means any weapon or munition which is primarily designed to set fire to objects or to cause burn injury to persons through the action of flame, heat, or combination thereof, produced by a chemical reaction of a substance delivered on the target;

"information"

means any recorded information regardless of form or medium;

"manufacture"

includes the design, development, production and assembly of prohibited weapons;

"military objective"

means any object which by its nature, location, purpose or use makes an effective contribution to military action and whose total or partial destruction, capture or neutralisation offers a definite military advantage;

"mine"

"minefield"

means a defined area in which any number of mines have been placed, and includes areas which simulate minefields;

"Minister"

means the Minister of Defence;

"non-detectable fragments"

means any device or material the primary effect of which is to injure by fragments which in the human body escape detection by X-rays;

"other devices"

means manually emplaced munitions and devices, including improvised explosive devices designed to kill, injure or damage and which are actuated manually, by remote control or automatically after a lapse of time;

"permanent blindness"

means irreversible and uncorrectable loss of vision which is seriously disabling with no prospect of recovery;

"place"

in relation to a mine, means to use, locale, emplace or situate a mine in a manner that would or could cause an explosion by the presence, proximity or contact of a vehicle, person or animal;

"police official"

means—

"premises"

includes any land, building or structure or any vehicle, vessel, aircraft or other means of conveyance;

"prescribed"

means prescribed by regulation made under section 15;

"procure"

includes the obtaining of a prohibited weapon through purchase, forfeiture, donation, cession or transfer;

"prohibited weapons"

means weapons referred to in sections 5 and 8;

"protocols"

means the Protocols to the Convention, namely the—

"remotely delivered mine"

means a mine not directly placed but delivered by artillery, missile, rocket, mortar or similar means, or dropped from an aircraft, excluding mines delivered from a land-based system from less than 500 metres, provided that those mines are used in accordance with Article 6 and other relevant Articles of Amended Protocol II;

"restricted weapons"

means weapons referred to in sections 6 and 7;

"this Act"

includes any regulations made in terms of section 14;

"transfer"

includes the—

"weapons"

means all conventional weapons referred to in the Convention.