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Duration
and particu-
lars of
licence.

Schedule.
Form A.

Having, ete.,

firearms,
without
licence.

Ch. 30. No. 5.] Firearms and Ammunition.

 

Justice, or member of the Police Force, gives his true name
and address and also the name and address of the occupier
of such land:

Provided also that any employee may use or carry any
firearm belonging to and duly licensed by his employer
when actually engaged on the business of his employer for
the protection of the employer or his employer’s property.

(2) It shall not be lawful for any such person or
employee as described in the last two provisos of the
foregoing subsection to use or carry any firearm as therein
provided unless the said person or employee shall first
obtain from the Officer of Police in charge of the division
in which the applicant resides a certificate of his fitness to
use a firearm, such certificate shall remain in force until
cancelled but may be cancelled at any time by the Officer
of Police in charge of the division aforesaid if he thinks fit.

(3) Any person aggrieved by a refusal to grant, or the
cancellation of, a certificate may appeal to the Commissioner
of Police whose decision shall be final.

4. (1) Every licence to keep a firearm shall be dated on
the day on which it is granted and shall expire on the
31st of March next following, shall be numbered, and shall
contain the full names and address of the person to whom,
and the description of the firearm in respect of which it is
granted, and shall be in the form A in the Schedule hereto,
and shall not be transferable.

(2) It shall be lawful for the Commissioner of Police
and any gazetted police officer or subordinate police officer to
amend any licence subsequent to the issue thereof by altering
the description of the firearm described in such licence.

5. Every person, not being a person exempted by the
provisions of section 3, who shall use, carry, or have in his
custody or possession any firearm without having in force a
licence to keep firearms, and every person who shall use,
carry, or have in his custody or possession any firearm except
such as is described in his licence to keep firearms, shall be
liable to a fine of two hundred and forty dollars.