Police Permits

AuthorLaura Saunsbury/Nick Doherty
Pages125-127

Chapter 6

Police Permits

6.01 Visitors’ permits are covered in Chapter 7.

6.02 A police permit allows the holder to have in his possession1firearms and ammunition without holding a firearm certificate or a shotgun certificate.2

Another form of police permit allows an auctioneer to sell by auction, expose for sale by auction and have in his possession for sale by auction firearms and ammunition without holding a certificate of either kind.3

6.03 Permits are obtainable from the chief officer of police for the police area where the applicant resides or, as the case may be, for the area where the auction is to be held.4

6.04 A general permit will only be granted in special cases where it may not be necessary or desirable to issue a firearm certificate or a shotgun certificate and, in general, the duration of the permit will be short. A permit will, for example, be appropriate to authorise possession of firearms or ammunition by a person who has been refused a certificate, or has had it revoked, until he is able to dispose of them; or by a relative or executor of a deceased person or a receiver of a bankrupt’s estate when firearms or ammunition form part of the property of the deceased person or bankrupt.

6.05 One circumstance where it is sometimes appropriate to request a permit is where an applicant for renewal of his firearm or shotgun certificate has put in his

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