Does the fine depend on how late I was?

No. Article 182 names a specific sum in each part rather than a range — 100 GEL, 200 GEL, 1,000 GEL, 3,000 GEL. The text draws no distinction based on the length of the delay, so a few days late and several months late attract the same figure under the same part.

The weapon was acquired lawfully. Why am I being fined at all?

Because this article is about timing, not about lawful possession. Part 1 penalises a natural person for breaching the time limit set for re-registering a civilian weapon, and provides a fine of 100 GEL. Lawful acquisition does not take the case outside that part.

I paid the 1,000 GEL fine. Is the matter closed?

Parts 4 and 5 tie the next step to whether the obligation was performed within 30 days of the warning, not to whether the fine was paid. Payment does not substitute for performance, so the chain can continue even after a fine has been settled.

Can a weapon really be confiscated over a missed deadline?

Part 5 does provide for confiscation, but only at the end of the sequence: a penalty under part 3 with a warning, then a penalty under part 4 with a further warning, and only then confiscation if the obligation remains unperformed 30 days after that second warning.

The decision does not tell me which obligation I failed to perform.

Article 182 does not describe the obligation itself — part 3 points to Article 35² and Article 35³ of the Law "On Weapons". Until you know which of those provisions is in issue, you cannot answer the allegation on the merits. Establishing that is the first step in the case.

Breach of the time limit for registering and re-registering a civilian weapon (Art. 182)

What Article 182 actually penalises

Article 182 of the Georgian Code of Administrative Offences does not punish holding a civilian weapon. It punishes missing a deadline — the deadline set for registering a civilian weapon, or the one set for re-registering it. That distinction matters a great deal in practice, because a weapon acquired entirely lawfully can still bring its owner within this article if the registration or re-registration step was not completed in time.

The article does not itself say how long those periods are. It refers to time limits fixed elsewhere in Georgian legislation and attaches a penalty to letting them expire. In any individual case, therefore, the first thing to establish is which period is said to have run out and from which date it was counted. The article was amended by Law of Georgia No. 3101 of 31 May 2023 and by Law of Georgia No. 452 of 4 April 2025.

Two subjects, two different acts

Parts 1 and 2 do not merely separate private individuals from businesses. They describe different steps as well:

Part 1 applies to a natural person who breaches the time limit set for the re-registration of a civilian weapon.
Part 2 applies to a legal person or an individual entrepreneur who breaches the time limit set for the registration of a civilian weapon.

When you read the decision, test both halves of that description against your own position: the status attributed to you, and the step said to be late. That comparison often tells you more about the strength of the case than the size of the fine does.

The penalties the article provides

Article 182 has five parts, and the sanction escalates step by step across them:

a natural person missing the re-registration deadline — a fine of 100 GEL;
a legal person or an individual entrepreneur missing the registration deadline — a fine of 200 GEL;
failure to perform, within the period set by Georgian legislation, the obligation under Article 35², paragraph 1 and/or paragraph 2, and/or under Article 35³, paragraph 1, of the Law of Georgia "On Weapons" — a fine of 1,000 GEL and a warning;
failure by a person already penalised under part 3 to perform that same obligation within 30 days of the warning — a fine of 3,000 GEL and a warning;
failure by a person already penalised under part 4 to perform that obligation within 30 days of the further warning — confiscation of the weapon.

Each of these amounts is fixed. The article sets no floor and no ceiling, so 100, 200, 1,000 and 3,000 GEL are exact figures rather than the upper end of a band within which a smaller sum might be argued for.

How the warning and the 30-day chain work

Parts 3, 4 and 5 are built as one sequence, and it is the order that gives each step its legal basis. Take the chain as the article sets it out. An obligation under Article 35² or 35³ of the Law "On Weapons" is not performed within the period set by legislation: the result is a fine of 1,000 GEL together with a warning. Thirty days pass from that warning and the obligation is still outstanding: the fine becomes 3,000 GEL and a further warning is issued. Thirty days pass from the second warning with the obligation still unperformed: at that point the sanction is no longer financial at all, and the article provides for confiscation of the weapon.

Two dates therefore decide a case of this kind — the date of the warning and the date the obligation was performed. If performance falls inside the 30 days, the basis for the next step in the chain does not arise. That is a very practical reason to keep dated proof of performance: a stamped application, a receipt, or a confirmation issued by the body that received it.

What you can do about a decision

Start with the decision itself. Identify which part of Article 182 is cited, which deadline is said to have been missed, and which dates the authority is relying on. Dates are where the picture changes most often. The obligation may already have been performed before the period expired; the warning may never actually have been served on you; or the count may have started from the wrong event.

A decision in an administrative-offence case can be challenged under the general rules of the Code. Article 182 lays down no separate appeal procedure of its own, and it names neither a deadline nor a body — those come from the general provisions of the Code. Read both off the decision you received, and check them immediately rather than assuming them.

What to gather before speaking to a lawyer

You will save time, and money, by bringing the paperwork with you:

the administrative-offence report and the decision in full, with every annex;
the registration and permit documents for the weapon, with the dates they carry;
every warning you have received, together with anything showing when and how it was served;
any evidence that the obligation was performed, and the date on which it was performed.

No lawyer can promise you an outcome. What representation actually does here is narrower and more useful than that: confirming that the right part of the article was applied to the right subject, testing how the time limits were counted, and checking that the warning-and-30-days sequence in parts 3 to 5 was genuinely followed before the heavier sanction was imposed.