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Air Weapons and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2015

Structure and Summary of the Act

Part 1 – Air Weapons

Offences

Section 30 – Failure to keep air weapons secure or to report loss to police

111.This section makes it an offence for a person in possession of an air weapon to fail to take reasonable precautions for its safe custody, or to fail to report the loss or theft of the air weapon to the Chief Constable as soon as reasonably practicable (this allows for any reasonable delay as a result of, for example, a person being ill in hospital or temporarily unaware of the loss or theft due to being on holiday). These offences apply to any person who possesses an air weapon, including natural and non-natural persons. The offences attract strict liability.

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