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Explanatory note

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(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules make a number of amendments to the Firearms Rules 1998 (S.I. 1998/1941).

Rule 3 amends Rule 5 of the Firearms Rules 1998 in order to remove the requirement for an application for renewal of a shotgun certificate to be accompanied by that certificate.

Rule 4 replaces the existing prescribed forms for applications for the grant or renewal of a firearm or shotgun certificate and for applications to vary a firearm certificate. These changes have been made in order to make the forms easier for an applicant to understand and reflect a new approach to ascertaining an applicant’s medical fitness to hold a firearm or shotgun certificate.

Rules 5 and 6 make provision to enable chief officers to process applications which are made using the old forms that are to be replaced, provided that the application concerned is received on or before 1st June 2016.