09/05/1924: Firearms (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1924.

1. No Firearms or Ammunition shall be imported under this licence at any other place other than the place of importation named thereon.

2. The Licensee, and the owner or master of any ship or boat in which any goods are being imported in virtue of this licence, shall, when required by a Government Inspector or by an Officer appointed by the Local Authority having jurisdiction over the place of importation or by any Officer of a Police Force in Saorstát Éireann or by any Officer of the Commissioners of the Customs and Excise, produce to him this License and furnish such Inspector or Officer with the means necessry to enable him to ascertain whether the conditions of the same are complied with; and shall, when required by any Inspector or Officer as aforesaid, open or cause to be opened any case or package imported under this Licence for the purpose of examination or for the taking of samples by such Inspector or Officer, and shall repack, or cause to be repacked, every case so opened using all due care and precautions in the opening and repacking.

3. As soon as the goods have been received, the particulars of the importation shall be inserted in the Form hereto attached, No. 3A F.L., and the said Form (duly filled up) shall be forthwith returned to the Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs. Such particulars shall include the name or names of the places, and the quantity of goods so deposited at each such place.

4. This Licence should be transmitted to the Consigner for production to the Packing or Shipping Company, and should accompany the goods.

Extract from Section 1 of the Firearms

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Temporary Provisions

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Act,

1924.

In this section the expression "Firearm" means any lethal firearm or other weapon of any description from which any shot, bullet or other missile can be discharged or any part thereof, and the expression "ammunition" means:—

Ammunition for any such firearm, and includes

Grenades, bombs and other similar missiles, whether such missiles are capable of use with a firearm or not, and ingredients and components thereof.

No. 4 F.L.

SAORSTÁT ÉIREANN.

AIREACHT UM GHNÓTHAI DUITHCHE (MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS).

Firearms

(

Temporary Provisions

)

Act,

1924.

APPLICATION FORM.

For Licence to Import or bring in any Firearms or Ammunition.

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Name of Applicant ............................................................ ............................................................ ......

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Address............................................................ ............................................................ .........................

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Profession, Business, or

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Specification and Quantity of Firearms or

Ammunition desired to be Imported or brought in, and Port of Entry into Saorstát Éireann............................................................ ............................................................ ......

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Purpose for which required............................................................ .......................................................

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Particulars as to Firearm Licence already possessed............................................................ ................

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Signature of Applicant.

Date............................................................ ..........

To the Secretary,

Ministry of Home Affairs,

Dublin.

5. A Register of Firearm Dealers to whom Certificates of Registration have been granted shall be kept in the Ministry of Home Affairs, and if any person desires to have his name removed from the Register, or if the Minister for Home Affairs is satisfied that a person whose name is on the Register is no longer carrying on business as a Firearm Dealer in Saorstát Éireann, or cannot be permitted to continue to carry on business as a Firearm Dealer without danger to the public safety or the peace, he shall cause the name of that person to be removed from the Register.

6. No person shall give or receive in pawn any firearm.

7. No person shall import firearms or ammunition unless he has been issued a licence in the Form (3 F.L.) annexed hereto. Applications for such licence should be addressed to the Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, Upper Merrion Street, Dublin, on the Form (4 F.L.) annexed hereto.

8. No person shall consign for export or removal from one place to another any firearm or ammunition unless such export or removal has been authorised in writing by the Superintendent of Police of the area from which they are to be exported or removed.

This Regulation shall not prohibit the holder of a Firearm Licence from carrying with him any firearm or ammunition authorised by the Licence to be carried. Any Superintendent of Police in Saorstát Eireann may search for and seize any firearms or ammunition which he has reason to believe are being removed or to have been removed from one place to another or for export, and any person having the control or custody of any firearm or ammunition in the course of transit shall, on demand by a constable, allow him all reasonable facilities for the examination and inspection thereof, and shall produce to him any documents in his possession relating thereto.

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) Any constable may demand from any person whom he believes to be in possession of or to be using or carrying a firearm or ammunition (except in circumstances where possession, using, or carrying a firearm or ammunition without a fire-arm licence does not constitute an offence), the production of his Firearm Licence.

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) If any person upon whom a demand is so made, fails to produce the Licence or to permit the constable to read the Licence, or to show that he is a person who is exempted under the Act or these Regulations from the necessity of having a Licence, the constable may seize and detain the firearm or ammunition, and may require that person to declare to him immediately his name and address.

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) 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 to declare his name or address, or whom he suspects of giving a false name or address, or of intending to abscond.

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) In addition to any other powers conferred on him under these regulations or otherwise a constable may arrest without warrant any person whom he believes to be in possession of or to be using or carrying a firearm or ammunition in contravention of any of the provisions of the Act or of these Regulations, and may search any such person, and whether arresting him or not may seize and detain any firearm or ammunition in his possession or used or carried by him.

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) Any constable, if authorised in writing by the Superintendent of Police of his area, may enter at any time any premises or place named in the warrant, if necessary, by force and search the premises or place and every person found therein and seize and detain any firearm, prohibited weapon or ammunition which he may find on the premises or place or on any such person in respect of which or in connection with which he has reasonable grounds for suspecting that an offence under the Act or these Regulations has been is being or is about to be committed, and if the premises are those of a registered Firearms dealer, may examine any books relating to the business. The constable making the search may arrest without warrant any person found on the premises whom he has reason to believe to be guilty of an offence against the Act or these Regulations.

FIREARMS (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) ACT, 1924

. No. 3A. F.L.

FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION—PARTICULARS OF IMPORTATION.

This Form to be filled up as soon as the Importation is effected, and returned forthwith to Secretary, Ministry of Home Affair, Merrion Street, Dublin.

Licence under which the importation is made

Port or Place of Importation

Name of Ship or Date of Boat in which the Importation is made

Name and Address of

Port or Place at which the Goods were shipped

Nature of Goods imported

Quantity of the Goods imported

Where Goods will be Stored prior to distribution

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No. 1 F.L.

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SAORSTÁT EIREANN.

Particulars of Firearm

Maker's

Name

Maker's

Number

FIREARMS (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) ACT, 1924

FIREARM LICENCE.

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is hereby authorised to be in possession of............................................................ .......................................................

Date and Details of Ammunition Purchased.

(To be filled in and initialled by the registered Dealer immediately on purchase.)

Date

Details

Dealer's Initials

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and to purchase not more than............................................................ .cartridges therefor.

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cartridges at any one time. (See over.)

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Dated at............................................................ . on the.................... day of......................................... 192 .

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Gárda Síochána.

The total quantity of cartridges which the holder is authorised to purchase is hereby increased.

Dublin Metropolitan Police.

10. The like powers in relation to firearms and ammunition are hereby conferred on Officers of Customs and Excise and Officers of the Post Office as such officers respectively have by law in relation to other articles the export, import and removal of which is prohibited or restricted.

11. In these Regulations the expression "constable" means any member of a Police Force in Saorstát Éireann, and the expression "Superintendent of Police" means a Superintendent (or Inspector acting as Superintendent) of the Gárda Síochána or a Superintendent of the Dublin Metropolitan Police or any Officer of higher rank.

C. Ó hUIGÍN,

Aire um Ghnothai Duitche.

Aireacht um Ghnothai Duithche,

Baile Atha Cliath,

9th May, 1924.

INSTRUCTIONS.

FIREARMS (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) ACT, 1924. Regulations made by the Minister for Home Affairs pursuant to Section 2 of the

Firearms (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1924

.

In exercise of the powers conferred on me by

Section 2

of the

Firearms (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1924

, I, CAOIMHGHIN O h-UIGIN, Minister for Home Affairs, do hereby make the following regulations:—