249 Firearms

• Author: Ralph Hone
• Pages: #5

CHAPTER 249.

FIREARMS.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

2. INTERPRETATION.

   PART I.

   REVOLVERS.

3. INTRODUCTION AND POSSESSION OF REVOLVERS PROHIBITED.

4. PENALTY.

5. EXEMPTION OF PERSONS ON BOARD FOREIGN VESSELS.

   PART 1I.

   GUNS.

6. DEPOSITING OF GUNS IN WAREHOUSE AND WITHDRAWAL THEREOF.

7. GUN LICENCES.

8. GUN AND DEALER'S LICENCES.

9. GUNS MAY BE MARKED BY THE LICENSING AUTHORITY.

10. PROCEEDINGS WHERE LICENCE IS LOST.

11. PROOF OF OWNERSHIP.

12. LICENCE TO MAKE OR SELL GUNS.

13. DEALERS TO KEEP BOOKS.

14. POWER TO CANCEL AND WITHDRAW LICENCE.

15. NOTICE OF TRANSFER OF GUN.

16. PROHIBITION AGAINST TRANSFER OF GUN TO A UNCERTIFICATED PERSON.

17. PERSONS SELLING AMMUNITION, ETC., TO MAKE AN ENTRY OF SAME.

18. OFFENCES AND PENALTIES.

    PART III.

    MISCELLANEOUS.

19. OFFICERS MAY ARREST WITHOUT WARRANT.

20. POWER TO SEARCH PREMISES.

21. JURISDICTION OF COURTS.

22. PROSECUTION WHEN BARRED.

23. EXEMPTIONS.

24. GOVERNOR MAY EXEMPT FROM THIS ACT.

25. RULES.

26. ExPENSES.

    SCHEDULE.

    OFFENCES FOR WHICH LICENCES MAY BE WITHDRAWN.

    CHAPTER 249.

    FIREARMS.

    AN ACT TO REGULATE THE LICENSING, IMPORTATION, MAKING, SELLING, POSSESSION AND USE OF FIREARMS AND MATTERS RELATED THERETO.

    [22nd July 1954.] 1. This Act may be cited as The Firearms Act.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires'Commissioner' means the Commissioner of Police and also includes a commissioner;

   'dealer's licence' means a licence issued under this Act to a dealer in guns for purposes of trade;

   'gun' means a rifle and fowling gun and every part thereof;

   'gun licence' means a licence issued under this Act to possess a gun;

   'licensing authority' means, in New Providence, the Commissioner of Police, and in an Out Island District, the commissioner of the district;

   'revolver' includes pistol and every part thereof, but does not include antique revolvers or any toy pistol from which any shot, bullet or missile is discharged by the force of a spring alone;

   'Schedule' means the Schedule to this Act.

   PART I.

   REVOLVERS.

3. -(1) Subject to sections 5, 23 and 24 of this Act, no person shall introduce into the Colony or possess any revolver unless he shall have obtained a special licence from the Governor under the hand of the Chief Secretary authorising him to introduce or possess the same.

   44 of 1954.

   S.I 71 of 1965.

   Short title.

   Interpretation.

   Introduction and possession of revolvers prohibited.

   I

   Penalty.

   Exemption of persons on board foreign vessels.

   (2) No such licence shall be issued except upon good cause shown, and every such licence shall be subject to such conditions and restrictions as to the Governor shall seem fit.

   (3) Every such licence shall cease and be of no effect at midnight on the thirty-first day of December in the year in which it is issued, but any such licence may be renewed at the discretion of the Governor.

4. -(1) Any person introducing a revolver into the Colony or being found in possession of a revolver in contravention of this Part of this Act, shall be liable on summary conviction to be imprisoned for two years or to a fine of one hundred pounds or to both such fine and imprisonment, and every such revolver shall be confiscated and destroyed.

   (2) The occupier of any house or premises in which any revolver is found shall, for the purposes of this Part of this Act, be deemed to be the possessor until the contrary is proved.

5. -(1) Nothing in this Part of this Act contained shall be deemed to relate to the possession of a revolver by a person belonging to or on board of foreign vessels arriving at any port of the Colony, provided that no such person brings a revolver on shore or introduces the same into the Colony in any other manner.

   (2) A licence shall be withdrawn by serving upon the holder a notice in writing to that effect under the hand of the Chief Secretary.

   PART II.

   GUNS.

6. -(1) From and after the coming into operation of this Act all guns imported into the Colony shall be deposited by the person importing the same in such warehouse or place as shall be appointed by the Governor.

   (2) Subject to the provisions of sections 23 and 24 of this Act no gun shall be withdrawn or removed from the warehouse or place in which it is deposited, except by a person possessing and producing a dealer's licence or a licence issued in accordance with section 7 of this Act and a record shall be kept of every such withdrawal Depositing of guns in warehouse and withdrawal thereof.

   or removal by the officer in charge of the place from whence the same is withdrawn.

   (3) A dealer in guns shall on the thirtieth day of September and...