What Article 182⁶ covers
Article 182⁶ of the Administrative Offences Code of Georgia deals with three items: sound (acoustic) weapons, gas aerosol devices and electroshock devices. Part 1 attaches liability to manufacturing (producing), repairing, importing, exporting, re-exporting or transiting any of them without the relevant licence or permit provided for by Georgian legislation, and equally to trading in any of these weapons without the relevant licence. Read together, the listed acts describe stages of commercial circulation — production, servicing, movement across the border, and sale. Carrying such an item, or acquiring one for personal use, does not appear in that list and is not the subject of this article. The people this article typically reaches are therefore manufacturers, repairers, importers and exporters, freight and transit operators, and retailers, whether they are trading from premises or online. The article draws no distinction between large and small volumes, and it does not specify that the activity must be systematic; its text speaks only of the listed acts and of the absence of the relevant licence or permit.
The penalties the article provides
An offence under Part 1 results in a fine of GEL 5,000, with or without confiscation of the weapon. Part 2 addresses repetition: where a person on whom an administrative penalty has already been imposed for any administrative offence under this article commits any offence defined by the same article again, the fine is GEL 6,000, again with or without confiscation of the weapon. Both figures are fixed — the article contains no "from — to" band, so there is no scope to argue the amount down within it. What is variable is the confiscation. The text expressly allows the penalty to be imposed either with confiscation or without it, which means the fate of the goods is a distinct question, and one the law itself leaves open to argument rather than settling in advance. The article stands in its current form by virtue of Law of Georgia No. 1271 of 17 December 2025.
Repetition is measured across the whole article
One detail is easy to miss and changes the figure directly. Part 2 does not require that the same act be committed twice. Its wording refers to any offence provided for by this article. So if a penalty was previously imposed for, say, repairing without a licence, and the person is later found to have traded without a licence, that still falls under Part 2 and means GEL 6,000 rather than GEL 5,000. The first thing to establish in any such case is therefore whether an earlier penalty exists at all, and whether it was genuinely imposed under this same article rather than under a neighbouring provision that happens to concern similar goods.