PART IIFIREARM CERTIFICATES, ETC.
Certificates granted in Great Britain, etc.
Air guns held without a firearm certificate in Great Britain18
1
A person resident in Great Britain may, without holding a firearm certificate, have an air gun F1to which paragraph (3) applies in his possession in Northern Ireland if—
a
he may have the air gun in his possession in Great Britain without a firearm certificate by virtue of section 1(3)(b) and (4)(b) of the Firearms Act 1968 (c. 27);
b
he has provided the Chief Constable with such information about the air gun and such other information as the Chief Constable may require; and
c
he holds a document ( “a certificate of approval”) authorising that possession issued to him by the Chief Constable F2on payment of the appropriate fee .
2
The Chief Constable may at any time require the holder of a certificate of approval to surrender it.
F33
This paragraph applies to an air gun which is capable of discharging a missile so that the missile has, on being discharged, a kinetic energy in excess of one joule.