Section 9 Certificates of registration
The chief officer of police shall grant or cause to be granted to any person who is registered under the last foregoing section a certificate of registration.
On or before the first day of June in each year, every person for the time being registered as a firearms dealer in any area shall—
surrender to the chief officer of police for that area his certificate of registration; and
apply in the prescribed form for a new certificate of registration; and
pay a fee of one pound;
and thereupon that officer shall, subject to the provisions of subsection (3) of the last foregoing section, grant him a new certificate of registration.
If any such person as aforesaid fails to comply with all or any of the requirements of the last foregoing subsection on or before the first day of June in any year, the chief officer of police shall by notice in writing require him to comply therewith, and, if he fails to do so within twenty-one days from the date of the notice, or within such further time as that officer may in special circumstances allow, shall cause his name to be removed from the register.
In any case where a chief officer of police causes the name of any firearms dealer to be removed from the register, he shall by notice in writing require the dealer to surrender his certificate of registration, and if the dealer fails to do so within twenty-one days from the date of the notice he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds :
Provided that, where an appeal is brought against the removal, this subsection shall not apply to that removal unless the appeal is abandoned or dismissed, and shall in that case have effect as if for the reference to the date of the notice there were substituted a reference to the date on which the appeal was abandoned or dismissed.