Short title, extent and commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the Arms Act, 1959. (2) It extends to the whole of India.  (3) It shall come into force on such date 1* as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gezette, appoint.  2. Definition and interpretation.  2. Definition and interpretation.- (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,--  (a) "acquisition", with its grammatical variations and  cognate expressions, includes hiring, borrowing, or accepting as a gift;  (b) "ammunition" means ammunition for any firearm, and  includes--  (i) rockets, bombs, grenades, shells [and other missiles] 2*  (ii) articles, designed for torpedo service and submarine mining, (iii) other articles containing, or designed or adapted to contain, explosive, fulminating or fissionable material or noxious liquid, gas or other such thing, whether capable of use with firearms or not