ARMS ACT

Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1931, Page 3

ARMS ACT

NEW REGULATIONS. I lil) I eletJTUpli — /Vi l‘rex.* 4 tXnClfltlUH/ WELLINGTON June 11. An Order-in-Coiuieii giving new Regulations under the Arms Act 1920 was gazetted to-night. The new regulations cover a number of machinery classes for facilitating easier handling of matters by the Police Department in the old regulations the police districts were referred to but in the-' new r.gulations tlu* term ‘ l)i>tricts” ha been omitted and the term “nearest Superintendent, or Inspector” substituted.

■Under tie new regulations the license to carry n pistol which formerly applied only to the police district, where such license, was issued .now covers tlu* area specified in the license. Tile new Act- makes provision for the amendments made by Pa ilia meat last year when shotguns were exempted from registration. Under the old Act tho certificate of registration of firearms only had effect in the district where it was issued, where-as, in Section 29 of the new regulation such eertilic :te will have effect throughout the Dominion. This will obviate the necessity for re-registra-tion on change of abode from one district to at)'-flier.

The next Section of the new regulations provides however thnfl <<iory repist red owner of firearms who changes his place of abode must notify the authorised officer nearest to In’s new resid nee within thirty days. The old registration provided for a period of seven da vs.

the only now regulation stipulates ‘■hat, when the* owner of a registered urcann intends to iomo.e it fiom Neu Zealand, he must notny the authorities time clear days before such removal and surrender his ceitifnaie oi registration. He must also notify llio nearest authority whenever a registered firearm is lost, stolen, or destroyed .and must also surrender the* certificate.

In connection vyitli licensed deal.rs. tlie record of the ammunition sol; 1 will not include that for shotguns, hut there is no alteration in respect t-> the regulation governing rifles or ammunition for them.

1 lie fees payable under the new regulations for the registration of firearms nr for licenses to retain lawful weapons have been slightly increasec?-