Southern African Development Community and thereby acting as intermediary between any manufacturer or supplier of, or dealer in, firearms, ammunition and other related materials and buyer or recipient thereof; "firearm" means: a) any portable lethal weapon that expels, or is designed to expel, a shot, bullet or projectile by the action of burning propellant, excluding antique firearms or their replicas that are not subject to authorisation in the respective State Parties; b) any device which may be readily converted into a weapon referred to in paragraph a); c) any small arm as defined in this Article; or d) any light weapon as defined in this Article; "illicit manufacturing" means the manufacturing or assembly of fire arms, ammunition and other related materials, without a licence or permit from a competent authority of the State Party where the manufacture or assembly takes place; "illicit trafficking" means the import, export, acquisition, sale, delivery, movement or transfer of firearms, ammunition and other related materials from, to, or across the territory of a State Party without the authority of State Parties concerned; "light weapons" include the following portable weapons designed for use by several persons serving as a crew: heavy machine guns, automatic cannons, howitzers, mortars of less than 100 mm calibre, grenade launchers, anti-tank weapons and launchers, recoilless guns, shoulder fired rockets, anti-aircraft weapons and launchers and air defence weapons. Protocol on Control of Fire Arms, Ammunition and other related materials 3

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