Weapons requiring firearm certificate

2 Re-definition of exempted shot guns.

1

Section 1 of the principal Act shall have effect with the following amendments the purpose of which is to require a firearm certificate for certain types of shot gun.

2

For paragraph (a) of subsection (3) (which exempts shot guns with barrels not less than 24 inches in length) there shall be substituted—

a

a shot gun within the meaning of this Act, that is to say a smooth-bore gun (not being an air gun) which—

i

has a barrel not less than 24 inches in length and does not have any barrel with a bore exceeding 2 inches in diameter;

ii

either has no magazine or has a non-detachable magazine incapable of holding more than two cartridges; and

iii

is not a revolver gun; and

3

After subsection (3) there shall be inserted—

3A

A gun which has been adapted to have such a magazine as is mentioned in subsection (3)(a)(ii) above shall not be regarded as falling within that provision unless the magazine bears a mark approved by the Secretary of State for denoting that fact and that mark has been made, and the adaptation has been certified in writing as having been carried out in a manner approved by him, either by one of the two companies mentioned in section 58(1) of this Act or by such other person as may be approved by him for that purpose.