Statutory Instruments
2019 No. 963
Arms And Ammunition
The Firearms (Amendment) Rules 2019
Made
21st May 2019
Coming into force
10th June 2019
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 33(3) and (5), 37(1) and 53 of the Firearms Act 1968( 1 ), makes the following Rules.
Citation and commencement
1. These Rules may be cited as the Firearms (Amendment) Rules 2019 and come into force on 10th June 2019.
Amendments to the Firearms Rules 1998
2. —(1) Schedule 5 to the Firearms Rules 1998( 2 ) (firearms dealers: forms of application, notification and registers) is amended as follows.
(2) For the form in Part I (firearms dealers: application for registration or for new certificate of registration), substitute the form in Schedule 1 to these Rules (firearms dealers: application for registration or for new certificate of registration).
(3) For the form in Part II (notification by a registered firearms dealer of a place of business not already entered in the register), substitute the form in Schedule 2 to these Rules (notification by a registeredfirearms dealer of a place of business not already entered in the register).
Nick Hurd
Minister of State
Home Office
21st May 2019
Rule 2(2)
SCHEDULE 1 Firearms dealers: Application for registration or for new Certificate of Registration
Rule 2(3)
SCHEDULE 2 Notification by a Registered Firearms Dealer of a place of business not already entered in the register
1968 c. 27 . The term “prescribed”, which is used in section 53, is defined in section 57(4).
S.I. 1998/1941 , to which there are amendments not relevant to these Rules.