Firearms Act 1965

8 Conditions of registration of firearms dealers

(1) The chief officer of police may at any time impose conditions subject to which the registration of any person as a firearms dealer under section 8 of the principal Act is to have effect and may at any time, of his own motion or on the application of the dealer, vary or revoke any such condition.

(2) The chief officer of police shall specify the conditions for the time being in force under this section in the certificate of registration granted to the firearms dealer under section 9 of the principal Act, and where any such condition is imposed, varied or revoked during the currency of a certificate of registration, the chief officer of police shall give notice in writing to the dealer of the condition or variation (giving particulars) or of the revocation, as the case may be, and may by that notice require the dealer to deliver up his certificate of registration to him within twenty-one days from the date of the notice for the purpose of amending the certificate.

(3) If the chief officer of police is satisfied that a person registered as a firearms dealer has failed to comply with any of the conditions of registration in force under this section, he may remove from the register either that person's name or any place of business of his to which that condition relates.

(4) A person aggrieved by the imposition or variation of, or refusal to vary or revoke, any such condition shall have the like right of appeal under section 8(5) of the principal Act as a person aggrieved by the refusal of a chief officer of police to register him as a firearms dealer; and the appeal shall lie to the court of quarter sessions (or, in Scotland, to the sheriff) within whose jurisdiction there is situated the appellant's place of business in respect of which the condition is in force.

(5) It is hereby declared that the said section 8(5) and section 9(4) of the principal Act (procedure on removal of firearms dealer from register) apply to the removal of a person's name from the register under subsection (3) of this section as they apply to any such removal under any provision of the principal Act, and section 10(4) of that Act (appeals against removal of place of business from register) shall apply to the removal of a place of business from the register under the said subsection (3) as it applies to such a removal under section 10(3) of that Act.

(6) Without prejudice to subsection (3) of this section, if any person fails to comply with any of the conditions imposed on him under this section he shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding two hundred pounds or both.