Police Permits
| Author | Laura Saunsbury/Nick Doherty |
| Pages | 125-127 |
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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
1A purchase or other form of acquisition cannot be covered by a permit.
2FA 1968, s 7(1). For these two kinds of certificate, see Chapters 3 and 4, respectively.
3FA 1968, s 9(2). See also para 3.24 for the possession of firearms and ammunition by auctioneers and their employees. A third form of permit (prescribed by the Firearms Rules 1989 (SI 1989/ 854) (now revoked), r 9(3) and Sch 4, Part V) is available for handling firearms and signalling apparatus in connection with ships and aircraft; see, further, para 3.27. Forms for each kind of permit are prescribed by the Firearms Rules 1998, r 9 and Sch 4.
4FA 1968, ss 7(1), 9(2). An applicant cannot be said to reside at a property which he has let (Burditt v Joslin [1981] 3 All ER 203, The Times, 13 February 1981).
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application in good time, but there has been a delay by the police in issuing the certificate. As we have seen, in these circumstances the continued possession of firearms or ammunition past the expiry date of the certificate is a...
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