PART VIIENFORCEMENT AND OFFENCES

Offences with firearms

Possession of firearm or ammunition in suspicious circumstances64

1

A person who has in his possession any firearm or ammunition in suspicious circumstances shall be guilty of an offence unless he shows that he had it in his possession for a lawful purpose.

2

In paragraph (1) “suspicious circumstances” means circumstances such as to give rise to a reasonable suspicion that the person does not have the firearm or the ammunition in his possession for a lawful purpose.

3

This Article is without prejudice to any other provision of this Order.