Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997

Pistol registers

28 Registers to be kept at licensed pistol clubs

(1) The responsible officer of a licensed pistol club shall keep at the licensed premises of the club a register (“the pistol register”) relating to the small-calibre pistols stored and used at those premises.

If two or more separate premises are licensed, a register shall be kept at each of those premises.

(2) The responsible officer shall enter or cause to be entered in the pistol register the following particulars in relation to each pistol stored at the licensed premises at which the register is kept, that is to say—

(a) the name and address of the person (or if more than one each person) authorised by a firearm certificate or visitor’s firearm permit to have the pistol in his possession;

(b) a description of the pistol;

(c) the date on which the pistol was first stored at the premises;

(d) the date and time of any removal of the pistol from the premises (together with the date of issue of any permit under section 13 above authorising the removal and the police force which issued it);

(e) the date and time of the return of the pistol after being removed;

(f) any other particulars required to be entered in the register by regulations under section 29 below;

and any entry relating to the date on which a pistol was first stored at the premises, or its subsequent removal from or return to those premises, shall be made within twenty four hours of that event.

(3) The information recorded on a pistol register shall (unless the register is surrendered to the Secretary of State under section 26(2) above) be kept so that each entry made in it will be available for inspection for at least five years from the date on which it was made.

(4) It is an offence for the responsible officer—

(a) to fail to comply with any requirement of this section;

(b) knowingly or recklessly to make any entry in the pistol register which is false in any material particular.

(5) An offence under subsection (4) above is punishable on summary conviction with imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or both.