SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 11Amendments relating to firearms

Firearms (Northern Ireland) Order 2004

3.  In each of the following provisions for “Secretary of State” (wherever occurring) substitute “Department of Justice”—

(a)Article 2(7) (interpretation: ceasing to be a firearm);

(b)Article 8(3) (content and duration of firearms certificates);

(c)Article 23(1)(b) (variation of European firearms pass);

(d)Article 27(4) (conditions for firearms dealer’s certificate);

(e)Article 71(1) (power by order to exclude application of minimum sentence under Article 70 to those under 18);

(f)Article 75(3) (power to amend sum in Schedule 6);

(g)Article 77(2)(b) (persons in the service of the Crown in right of Her Majesty’s government in Northern Ireland);

(h)paragraphs 2(1), (3), (4) and (6), 3 and 4 of Schedule 2 (firearms and ammunition in museums).