PART IIFIREARM CERTIFICATES, ETC.
Certificates granted in Great Britain, etc.
Air guns held without a firearm certificate in Great Britain18.
(1)
A person resident in Great Britain may, without holding a firearm certificate, have an air gun F1to which paragraph (3) applies in his possession in Northern Ireland if—
(a)
he may have the air gun in his possession in Great Britain without a firearm certificate by virtue of section 1(3)(b) and (4)(b) of the Firearms Act 1968 (c. 27);
(b)
he has provided the Chief Constable with such information about the air gun and such other information as the Chief Constable may require; and
(c)
he holds a document ( “a certificate of approval”) authorising that possession issued to him by the Chief Constable F2on payment of the appropriate fee .
(2)
The Chief Constable may at any time require the holder of a certificate of approval to surrender it.
F3(3)
This paragraph applies to an air gun which is capable of discharging a missile so that the missile has, on being discharged, a kinetic energy in excess of one joule.