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Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997

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47Museums eligible for a museums firearm licence

In the Schedule to the 1988 Act (firearms and ammunition in museums to which the Schedule applies)—

(a)the existing provisions of paragraph 5 shall be numbered as sub-paragraph (1) of that paragraph;

(b)after that sub-paragraph there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraphs—

“(2)This Schedule also applies to any museum or similar institution in Great Britain which is of a description specified in an order made for the purposes of this sub-paragraph by the Secretary of State and whose collection includes or is to include firearms.

(3)An order under sub-paragraph (2) above may specify any description of museum or similar institution which appears to the Secretary of State to have as its purpose, or one of its purposes, the preservation for the public benefit of a collection of historical, artistic or scientific interest.

(4)The power to make an order under sub-paragraph (2) above shall be exercisable by statutory instrument.”.

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