PART VIIENFORCEMENT AND OFFENCES

Offences with firearms

Possession of firearm or ammunition in suspicious circumstances64.

(1)

A person who has in his possession any firearm or ammunition in suspicious circumstances shall be guilty of an offence unless he shows that he had it in his possession for a lawful purpose.

(2)

In paragraph (1) “suspicious circumstances” means circumstances such as to give rise to a reasonable suspicion that the person does not have the firearm or the ammunition in his possession for a lawful purpose.

(3)

This Article is without prejudice to any other provision of this Order.