Section 10 Registration of places of business of firearms dealers
The prescribed particulars which a person applying to be registered in any area as a firearms dealer under section eight of this Act is required to furnish shall include particulars of every place of business at which he proposes to carry on business within the area as a firearms dealer, and the chief officer of police for that area shall, subject as hereinafter provided, enter in the register every such place of business.
Every person registered as a firearms dealer in any area (whether before or after the commencement of this Act) who proposes to carry on business as such at any place of business in that area which is not entered in the register, shall notify the chief officer of police for that area" and furnish him with such particulars as may be prescribed, and the officer shall, subject as hereinafter provided, enter that place of business in the register.
A chief officer of police, if he is satisfied that any place of business notified to him by any person under either of the last two foregoing subsections, or any place entered as the place of business of any person in the register of firearms dealers, is a place at which that person cannot he permitted to carry on business as a firearms dealer without danger to the public safety or to the peace, may refuse to enter that place of business in the register or remove it from the register, as the case may be.
Any person aggrieved by any such refusal or removal may appeal—
in England, in accordance with so much of the provisions of the First Schedule to this Act as relates to appeals, to the court of quarter sessions having jurisdiction in the county, borough or place in which there is situated the place of business to which the appeal relates; or
in Scotland, in accordance with Act of Sederunt, to the sheriff within whose jurisdiction the said place of business is situated.
If—
any person, being a registered firearms dealer, has a place of business which is not entered on the register for the area in which that place is situated, and carries on business as a firearms dealer at that place; or
any person makes any statement which he knows to be false for the purpose of procuring, whether for himself or any other person, the entry of any place of business in a register of firearms dealers;
he shall, for each offence, be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds or to both such imprisonment and fine.