Section 6 Production of certificates

Any constable may demand from any person, whom he believes to be in possession of a firearm or ammunition to which this Part of this Act applies, the production of his firearm certificate.

If any person upon whom a demand is so made fails to produce the certificate, or to permit the constable to read the certificate, or to show that he is entitled by virtue of this Act to have the firearm or ammunition in his possession without holding a firearm certificate, the constable may seize and detain the firearm or ammunition, and may require that person to declare to him immediately his name and address.

If any person refuses so to declare his name and address, or fails to give his true name and address, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds, and the constable may apprehend without warrant any person who refuses so to declare his name or address, or whom he suspects of giving a false name or address, or of intending to abscond.