Section 8 Registration of firearms dealers
For the purposes of this Act, the chief officer of police for every area shall keep in the prescribed form a register of firearms dealers and, subject as hereinafter provided, shall enter therein the name of any person who, having or proposing to have a place of business in his area, applies to be registered as a firearms dealer and furnishes him with the prescribed particulars:
Provided that—
the chief officer of police shall not register an applicant who is prohibited to be registered by order of a court in Great Britain made under section thirteen of this Act or subsection (5) of section eight of the 10 & 11 Geo. 5. c. 43.Firearms Act, 1920, or by order of a court in Northern Ireland made under the said subsection (5) or any enactment passed by the Parliament of Northern Ireland amending or substituted for that section; and
the chief officer of police may refuse to register an applicant, if he is satisfied that the applicant cannot be permitted to carry on business as a firearms dealer without danger to the public safety or to the peace.
On the registration of an applicant as a firearms dealer in any area there shall be payable a fee of five pounds:
Provided that no fee shall be payable if the chief officer of police for the area in which the applicant has applied to be registered is satisfied that the only place of business in respect of which the application is made—
has become situated in that area by reason of an alteration in the boundary of the area and was previously entered in the register for another area; or
is one to which the applicant proposes to transfer the business previously carried on by him at a place entered in the register for another area.
If the chief officer of police, after giving reasonable notice to any person whose name is on the register, is satisfied that that person—
is no longer carrying on business as a firearms dealer; or
has ceased to have a place of business in the area; or
cannot be permitted to continue to carry on business as a firearms dealer without danger to the public safety or to the peace.:
he shall cause the name of that person to be removed from the register.
The chief officer of police shall also cause the name of any person to be removed from the register if that person so desires.
Any person aggrieved by a refusal of a chief officer of police to register him as a firearms dealer, or by the removal of his name from the register by a chief officer of police, 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 any place of business in respect of which the appellant has applied to be, or (in the case of an appeal against removal from the register) has been, registered; or
in Scotland, in accordance with Act of Sederunt, to the sheriff within whose jurisdiction any such place of business is situated.
If any person, for the purpose of procuring the registration of himself or any other person as a firearms dealer, makes any statement which he knows to be false, 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.