The Firearms (Scotland) Amendment Rules 1992

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules prescribe additional conditions to which a firearm or shot gun certificate under the Firearms Act 1968 (“the 1968 Act”) is to be subject in certain cases. There are conditions which ensure that possession, purchase or acquisition of certain weapons or ammunition by a certificate holder for the purpose only of a collection are restricted to that purpose. There is also a condition which ensures that possession, purchase or acquisition of expanding ammunition by a firearm certificate holder is restricted to certain purposes, namely use with a slaughtering instrument, sporting purposes, estate husbandry, competition purposes (including target shooting) and target shooting outside competition.

Where by virtue of the Firearms Acts (Amendment) Regulations 1992 (which come into force on 1st January 1993) the weapon or ammunition in question becomes a prohibited weapon or prohibited ammunition whose possession, purchase or acquisition requires the authority of the Secretary of State under section 5 of the 1968 Act, or where, by virtue of those Regulations, a British resident’s purchase or acquisition of the weapon in another European Community State must be notified to his local chief officer of police, a certificate holder whose certificate contains the appropriate condition will be able to possess, purchase or acquire, the weapon or ammunition without the authority of the Secretary of State or notification to the chief officer, as the case may be.