SCHEDULE 1EXEMPTIONS
Registered firearms dealers and their employees
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1
It is not an offence under section 2(1) for an individual to use, possess, purchase or acquire an air weapon without holding an air weapon certificate if—
a
the individual is carrying on business as a registered firearms dealer or is the employee of a registered firearms dealer, and
b
the possession occurs in the ordinary course of the business as such a dealer.
2
For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), it is irrelevant whether the use, possession, purchase or acquisition of the air weapon occurs at a place—
a
which is not a place of business of the registered firearms dealer, or
b
which the dealer has not registered as a place of business under section 33 or 37 of the 1968 Act.
3
It is not an offence under section 2(1) for an individual (“A”) to—
a
borrow an air weapon from a registered firearms dealer, and
b
use and possess the weapon on land occupied by the dealer,
without holding an air weapon certificate, if the conditions in sub-paragraph (4) are complied with.
4
The conditions are—
a
A uses and possesses the air weapon under the supervision of the registered firearm dealer or an employee of the dealer (“the supervisor”), and
b
where A is under the age of 14, the supervisor is aged 21 years or more.