LAWS OF SOLOMON ISLANDS

[1996 EDITION]

CHAPTER 80

FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION

LN 104/1967 

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART I
PRELIMINARY
SECTION
1.	SHORT TITLE
2.	INTERPRETATION
3.	DESIGNATION OF PRINCIPAL LICENSING OFFICER AND OTHER LICENSING OFFICERS

PART II
REGULATION OF THE MANUFACTURE, PURCHASE, POSSESSION AND USE OF FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION

4.	RESTRICTION ON THE MANUFACTURE OF FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION
5.	PENALTY FOR PURCHASING, ETC., FIREARMS OR AMMUNITION WITHOUT FIREARM LICENCE
6.	GRANT, ETC., OF FIREARM LICENCES
7.	PERSONS EXEMPTED FROM LICENSING REQUIREMENTS
8.	POWER TO REFUSE FIREARM LICENCE OR PERMIT UNLESS FIREARM OR AMMUNITION PRODUCED
9.	MARKING OF FIREARMS
10.	LOST LICENCES

PART III
LICENSED FIREARMS DEALERS

11.	DEALERS' LICENCES
12.	OBSTRUCTING INSPECTION OF STOCK-IN-TRADE
13.	DEALER TO MAINTAIN APPROVED FIREARMS STORE
14.	PROVISIONS AS TO SHORTENING FIREARMS

PART IV
IMPORT AND EXPORT OF FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION

15.	LICENCE TO IMPORT
16.	FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION SENT BY POST
17.	LICENCE TO EXPORT
18.	PORTS AND PLACES OF IMPORT AND EXPORT
19.	DECLARATION OF FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION ON IMPORTATION
20.	PENALTY FOR UNLAWFUL IMPORTATION OR EXPORTATION
21.	TRANSIT LICENCES
22.	CONCEALING UNLAWFULLY IMPORTED FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION
23.	MINISTER MAY PROHIBIT IMPORTATION OR EXPORTATION
24.	PENALTY IN RESPECT OF VESSEL USED FOR ILLEGAL IMPORTATION OR EXPORTATION

PART V
MISCELLANEOUS

25.	PROHIBITION OF ARMS IN CERTAIN AREAS
26.	CERTAIN WEAPONS PROHIBITED WITHOUT AUTHORITY OF MINISTER
27.	LICENCES MAY BE REFUSED, CANCELLED OR SUSPENDED
28.	PENALTY FOR TAKING IN PAWN FIREARMS OR AMMUNITION
29.	LOSS OF FIREARM OR PERMITTING ANOTHER PERSON TO USE FIREARMS
30.	SEARCH FOR FIREARMS OR AMMUNITION UNDER WARRANT
31.	DETENTION OF FIREARMS OR AMMUNITION BY THE POLICE
32.	ENTRY ON PLACE WHERE THERE ARE FIREARMS OR AMMUNITION
33.	WHERE LICENSEE UNDER DISABILITY
34.	DEPOSIT OF FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION AT POLICE STATION
35.	DISPOSAL OF DETAINED FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION
36.	PRESUMPTION OF POSSESSION
37.	FORFEITURES
38.	RESTRICTIONS ON SALE, REPAIR, ETC., OF FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION
39.	SECURITY OF FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION
40.	LOSS OF FIREARMS OR AMMUNITION TO BE REPORTED
41.	CARRYING FIREARM WHILE DRUNK OR DISORDERLY
42.	THREATENING VIOLENCE WITH FIREARM
43.	POWER TO DETAIN AND FORFEIT FIREARMS
44.	DISCHARGING FIREARM IN PUBLIC PLACE
45.	APPEALS
46.	GENERAL PENALTY
47.	LIABILITY OF PRINCIPAL AND AGENT
48.	PERSONS CONVEYING FIREARMS OR AMMUNITION MAY BE APPREHENDED WITHOUT WARRANT
49.	ARREST BY POLICE WITHOUT WARRANT
50.	POWER TO STOP AND SEARCH FOR FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION IN THE STREET
51.	PRESUMPTION
52.	EXEMPTION OF SHIP AND AIRCRAFT SIGNALLING EQUIPMENT, ETC
53.	SPECIAL PROVISION RELATING TO SERVANTS OF THE CROWN
54.	PROVISIONS OF THIS ACT TO BE ADDITIONAL TO OTHER ACTS
55.	REGULATIONS
56.	POWER TO EXEMPT

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CHAPTER 80

FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION

AN ACT TO MAKE FURTHER AND BETTER PROVISION FOR THE CONTROL OF THE POSSESSION, MANUFACTURE, SALE, REPAIR, STORAGE, IMPORT AND EXPORT OF FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION, AND FOR MATTERS INCIDENTAL THERETO AND CONNECTED THEREWITH.

[1st July 1968]

7 of 1967
4 of 1968
LN 46A of 1978
LN 88 of 1978
17 of 1989

PART I
PRELIMINARY

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Firearms and Ammunition Act.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

"ammunition" means ammunition for any firearm as hereinafter defined and includes bullets, cartridges, shells or anything designed or adapted for or capable of use with any firearm, and any ammunition containing or designed or adapted to contain any noxious liquid, gas or other thing but does not include spears discharged from a firearm solely for the purpose of killing fish nor ammunition abandoned in Solomon Islands by any armed forces during the Second World War or thereafter in consequence of that war;
4 of 1968, Sched

"firearm" means any lethal barrelled weapon of any description from which any shot, bullet or other missile can be discharged, or which can be adapted for the discharge of any such shot, bullet or other missile, and any weapon of whatever description designed or adapted for the discharge of any noxious liquid, gas or other thing dangerous to persons, and includes any component part of any such weapon, and any accessory to any such weapon designed or adapted to diminish the noise or flash caused by firing the weapon, but does not include an air gun, air rifle or air pistol except where otherwise expressly provided, nor articles designed or adapted solely to discharge spears for spearing fish;

"firearm licence" means a licence issued under section 6;

"licensed firearms dealer" means the holder of a valid licence to deal in firearms and ammunition and to repair firearms issued under the provisions of this Act;

"Minister" means the Minister for the time being charged with responsibility for firearms and ammunition;
17 of 1989, s. 2

"prohibited area" means an area in respect of which the Minister has made an order under section 25 (1);
LN 46A of 1978
17 of 1989, s. 3

"vessel" includes aircraft.

(2) For the purpose of this Act, except where otherwise provided, the length of the barrel of a firearm shall be measured from the muzzle to the point at which the charge is exploded on firing.

Designation of Principal Licensing Officer and other licensing officers

3.—(1) The Minister may from time to time designate a public officer to be the Principal Licensing Officer for the purpose of this Act.
17 of 1989, s. 4

(2) The Principal Licensing Officer may for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act, from time to time designate other public officers as licensing officers.

(3) Subject to the provisions of this Act, licensing officers shall exercise their powers and discharge their duties subject to such directions as may be issued by the Principal Licensing Officer.

(4) The Principal Licensing Officer may exercise any of the powers and perform any of the duties of a licensing officer under this Act.

PART II
REGULATION OF THE MANUFACTURE, PURCHASE, POSSESSION AND USE OF FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION

Restriction on the manufacture of firearms and ammunition
LN 46A of 1978
17 of 1989, s. 3

4.—(1) No person shall manufacture any firearm or ammunition except at an arsenal established with the written approval of the Minister and in accordance with such conditions as the Minister may from time to time specify in writing.

(2) In this section, the word "manufacture", in relation to firearms, does not include the repair of firearms, the conversion into a firearm of anything which has the appearance of a firearm but is so constructed as to be incapable of discharging any missile through the barrel thereof, or the alteration, substitution or replacement of any component part of a firearm.

(3) If any person contravenes the provisions of subsection (1), he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of five thousand dollars or to imprisonment for ten years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
17 of 1989, s. 8

Penalty for purchasing, etc., firearms or ammunition without firearm licence
17 of 1989, s. 8

5.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, no person shall purchase, acquire or have in his possession any firearm or ammunition unless he holds a firearm licence in force at the time.

(2) If any person—

(a) purchases, acquires or has in his possession any firearm or ammunition without holding a firearm licence in force at the time, or otherwise than as authorised by such a licence, or, in the case of ammunition, in quantities in excess of those so authorised; or

(b) fails to comply with any condition subject to which a firearm licence is held by him, he shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be guilty of an offence and liable—

(i) if the offence was committed in a prohibited area to a fine of five thousand dollars or to imprisonment for ten years, or to both such fine and such imprisonment;

(ii) if the offence was committed elsewhere, to a fine of three thousand dollars or to imprisonment for five years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.

Grant, etc., of firearm licences

6.—(1) An application for the grant of a firearm licence shall be made in the prescribed form to a licensing officer, and shall state such particulars as may be required by the said form.

(2)	(a) A firearm licence may, on payment of the prescribed fee, be granted by the licensing officer if he is satisfied that the applicant has a good reason for purchasing, acquiring or having in his possession the firearm or ammunition in respect of which the application is made, and can be permitted to have in his possession that firearm or ammunition without danger to the public safety or to the peace:

Provided that—

(i) a firearm licence shall not be granted to a person whom the licensing officer has reason to believe to be prohibited by or under this Act from possessing a firearm, or to be of intemperate habits or unsound mind, or to be for any reason unfitted to be entrusted with such a firearm, or who has not satisfied a licensing officer that he will at all times keep the firearm securely and in safe custody and take all reasonable precautions to ensure that the firearm is not lost or stolen and is not at any time available to any person not lawfully entitled to possess the same; and

(ii) no firearm licence for a pistol or an automatic firearm, or ammunition which is intended or only capable of use therefor, shall be issued or renewed except by the Principal Licensing Officer.

(b) In this subsection—

"pistol" means a firearm or other weapon of any description from which any shot, bullet or other missile can be discharged and of which the length of barrel not including any revolving, detachable or magazine breech does not exceed nine inches, and

"automatic firearm" means any firearm which when fired ejects the spent round and refills the breech.

(3) A firearm licence granted under this section shall be in the prescribed form, and shall specify the conditions (if any) subject to which it is held, the nature of the firearm to which it relates and, as respects ammunition, the quantities authorised to be purchased and to be held at any one time thereunder.

(4) A firearm licence shall, unless previously revoked or cancelled, continue in force until the thirty-first day of December in the year in respect of which it was issued, but shall be renewable for a further period of one year by a licensing officer, and so on from time to time, and the foregoing provisions of this section shall apply to the renewal of a firearm licence as they apply to the grant of a firearm licence.

(5) A licensing officer may at any time by notice in writing vary the conditions subject to which a firearm licence is held, except such of them as may be prescribed, and may by such notice require the holder to deliver up the firearm licence to him within fourteen days from the date of the notice for the purpose of amending the conditions specified in such licence.

(6) A firearm licence may also, on the application of the holder thereof, be varied from time to time by a licensing officer.

(7) A firearm licence may be revoked by a licensing officer if—

(a) the licensing officer is satisfied that the holder is prohibited by or under this Act from possessing a firearm to which the firearm licence relates, or is of intemperate habits or unsound mind, or is otherwise unfitted to be entrusted with such a firearm; or

(b) the holder fails to comply with a notice under subsection (5) requiring him to deliver up the firearm licence.

(8) In any case where a firearm licence is revoked by a licensing officer, he shall by notice in writing require the holder to surrender the firearm licence, and if the holder fails to do so within fourteen days from the date of the notice he shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of four hundred dollars:

Provided that, where an appeal under section 45 is brought against the revocation, this subsection shall not apply to that revocation 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.
17 of 1989, s. 8

Persons exempted from licensing requirements
LN 46A of 1978
17 of 1989, s. 3 & s. 5

7. The following persons are hereby exempted from the provisions of section 5 to the extent specified—

(a) the Governor-General;

(b) bodyguards to visiting Heads of States or to Heads of Governments or to other foreign dignitaries to such extent as may be authorised by the Principal Licensing Officer;

(c) carriers and warehousemen and their servants having in their possession in the ordinary course of business as carriers or warehousemen and not for use, firearms or ammunition for which, except in the case of first importation, a licence has been issued and is in force, in respect of such possession only;

(d) any member of a rifle club or association or miniature rifle club or association approved in writing by the Minister in respect of any arms used by a member of such club or association solely for the lawful purposes of such club or association;

(e) the owners, master, crew and passengers of any vessel, which is in writing exempted from section 5 by the Principal Licensing Officer, or of any vessel operated by a shipping line, other than a vessel solely engaged in carrying goods or passengers within Solomon Islands, in respect of firearms and ammunition aboard such vessel;

(f) a licensed firearms dealer and his servants in respect of firearms or ammunition in their possession in the ordinary course of business of such licensed firearms dealer;

(g) banks carrying on business in Solomon Islands and their servants, having in their possession for safe custody and not for use, firearms or ammunition for which a licence has been issued and is in force, in respect of such possession only;

(h) any person who in connection with any athletic or sports meeting or theatrical performance is in writing authorised by a licensing officer to possess and use any firearm and ammunition, to the extent so authorised; 
and

(i) any bona fide traveller in possession of a firearm or ammunition under and in accordance with an interim permit issued under section 15(4), in respect of such firearm or ammunition.

Power to refuse firearm licence or permit unless firearm or ammunition produced

8.—(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any of the foregoing sections of this Act, a licensing officer may refuse to grant, renew or vary a firearm licence, or to grant a written authorisation under section 7(h), unless and until any firearm to which such firearm licence or permit will, if granted, renewed or varied, relate is produced to him for his inspection and for marking, if necessary, in accordance with the requirements of subsection (2).

(2) No firearm licence shall be granted, or, as the case may be, varied or renewed, in respect of a firearm unless the licensing officer is satisfied that such firearm bears such mark or number of identification as may be prescribed or will be marked with such a mark or number before it is taken into possession by the licensee or that it is exempted from the requirements of this subsection by regulations made under section 55.

Marking of firearms

9.—(1) A licensing officer to whom application for a firearm licence is made may, before issuing the licence applied for, cause the firearm concerned to be marked with such mark or number as may be prescribed, in such manner as far as possible not to injure or disfigure the same.

(2) Any person who wilfully obliterates, defaces, alters, counterfeits or forges a manufacturer's serial number or any prescribed mark or number marked in pursuance of this Act or who fraudulently marks any firearm with any mark or number resembling or intended to resemble any prescribed mark or number shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for two years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
17 of 1989, s. 8

Lost licences

10. If a licence issued under section 6 is destroyed, defaced or lost, the person named therein may, on application to a licensing officer and on satisfying him that the application is made in good faith, obtain from him on payment of the prescribed fee a new licence in lieu of that destroyed, defaced or lost.

PART III
LICENSED FIREARMS DEALERS

Dealers licences

11.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, no person other than a licensed firearms dealer or his servants in the ordinary course of business of such licensed firearms dealer shall, by way of trade or business—

(a) assemble, clean, repair, test or prove any firearm or ammunition;

(b) manufacture any component part of any firearm or ammunition;

(c) sell, transfer or expose for sale any firearm or ammunition;

(d) keep or have in his possession any firearm or ammunition for any of the aforesaid purposes.

(2) Licences to deal in firearms and ammunition and to repair firearms, which shall be in the prescribed form, may be issued by the Principal Licensing Officer on payment of the prescribed fee and every person applying for such a licence shall furnish particulars of the place of business at which he proposes to carry on business as a licensed firearms dealer.

(3) Each such licence shall relate to a single place of business.

(4) Every such licence shall expire on the thirty-first day of December of the year in respect of which it is issued.

(5) Every person so licensed shall at all times keep books containing an accurate record of all firearms or ammunition imported or received by him in the course of his business and of all firearms or ammunition sold by him and of the marks by which all firearms so sold may be identified with the date of sale and the name and address of the purchaser, and shall on demand produce them for the inspection of any licensing officer or police officer at such place and time as such officer may reasonably require.

(6) Every such person shall also within the first seven days of each calendar month furnish to the Principal Licensing Officer particulars in the prescribed form of his stock and of all firearms and ammunition imported or received by him in the course of his business and of all firearms and ammunition sold by him during the last preceding calendar month.

(7) Any person who contravenes the provisions of subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for two years or to both such fine and such imprisonment; and any person who contravenes the provisions of subsections (5) or (6) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of two hundred dollars.
17 of 1989, s. 8

(8) The Principal Licensing Officer, if he is satisfied that the place of business notified to him by any person under subsection (2) is a place at which that person cannot be permitted to carry on business as a firearms dealer without danger to the public safety or to the peace, or that inadequate precautions exist at such place of business for the security of firearms or ammunition, may refuse to grant the application.

Obstructing inspection of stock-in-trade

12.—(1) Every licensed firearms dealer shall on demand of any licensing officer or police officer submit his stock-in-trade to the inspection of such officer.

(2) Whoever intentionally conceals the stock-in-trade of any such person from a licensing officer or police officer or wilfully refuses to point out where the same is kept shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
17 of 1989, s. 8

Dealer to maintain approved firearms store
17 of 1989, s. 8

13. Any licensed firearms dealer who fails to maintain at his place of business a store for the safe custody of firearms and ammunition approved in writing by a licensing officer shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.

Provisions as to shortening and converting firearms and imitation firearms

14.—(1) No person shall, without the written permission of the Principal Licensing Officer, shorten the barrel of a firearm to a length less than twenty-four inches, or convert any firearm that is not an automatic firearm as defined in section 6 (2) (b), into an automatic firearm as so defined.

(2) No person shall convert into a firearm anything which, though having the appearance of being a firearm, is so constructed as to be incapable of discharging any missile through the barrel thereof.

(3) Any person who contravenes any of the foregoing provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for one year or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
17 of 1989, s. 8

PART IV
IMPORT AND EXPORT OF FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION

Licence to import
LN 46A of 1978

15.—(1) No person shall import any firearm or ammunition or parts of firearms or ammunition into Solomon Islands from a place without Solomon Islands unless he holds a licence in that behalf:

Provided that when any firearm is imported into Solomon Islands without an import licence or interim licence under this section having been obtained authorising the importation thereof, such importation shall not be deemed to contravene the provisions of this section while such firearm on importation is left in the possession of the Department of Customs and Excise.

(2) Such licence may be obtained on application to the Principal Licensing Officer on payment of the prescribed fee and shall be in the prescribed form or, if no form is prescribed, in such form as the Principal Licensing Officer may deem expedient.

(3) Every holder of such licence shall endorse thereon descriptive particulars of all firearms and ammunition or parts of firearms and ammunition imported thereunder, and shall return such licence to the Principal Licensing Officer within fourteen days from the expiration of the licence or from taking delivery of all the firearms, ammunition and parts authorised to be imported, whichever is the earlier.

(4) A police officer may in his discretion, but subject to such conditions as may be prescribed and the directions of the Principal Licensing Officer, issue in the prescribed form to any bona fide traveller arriving in the Solomon Islands an interim licence to import any personal firearm and the ammunition for such firearm.

(5) Where a bona fide traveller leaves firearms and ammunition in the possession of the Department of Customs and Excise under the provisions of this section such arms and ammunition may be transported from the port or airport where they were imported to any other port or airport in Solomon Islands at the request of such traveller, made in writing to the Comptroller of Customs and Excise and on payment of the prescribed fee.

Firearms and ammunition sent by post
LN 46A of 1978

16. Firearms and ammunition sent through the post from outside Solomon Islands shall not be delivered to the consignee unless or until an import licence for such firearms and ammunition is produced at the post office of delivery.

Licence to export
LN 46A of 1978

17.—(1) No person shall export any firearms or ammunition from Solomon Islands to a place without Solomon Islands unless he holds a licence in that behalf.

(2) Such licence may be obtained on application to the Principal Licensing Officer on payment of the prescribed fee and shall be in the prescribed form.

Ports and places of import and export
LN 46A of 1978
17 of 1989, s. 3

18. The Minister may from time to time by notice declare that firearms or ammunition or particular classes of firearms or ammunition shall not be imported into or exported from Solomon Islands from or to any place without Solomon Islands except at ports or places specified in such notice, and no firearms or ammunition shall be imported into or exported from Solomon Islands contrary to the terms of such notice.

Declaration of firearms and ammunition on importation
LN 88 of 1978

19. Every person entering Solomon Islands who has in his possession or among his baggage any firearm or ammunition and every consignee receiving any firearm or ammunition imported into Solomon Islands shall make a declaration thereof to a customs officer on arrival and before clearing such firearm or ammunition through the customs shall produce to such customs officer an import licence issued under section 15.

Penalty for unlawful importation or exportation
17 of 1989, s. 8

20. Any person who contravenes the provisions of sections 15 (1), 17 (1) or 18 shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for one year or to both such fine and such imprisonment.

Any person who contravenes the provisions of sections 15 (3) or 19 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of three hundred dollars.

Transit licences

21. Notwithstanding any provisions of this Act, the Principal Licensing Officer may, in his discretion, grant, with or without conditions, refuse, suspend or revoke transit licences covering the importation into, removal within, transportation across, and exportation from Solomon Islands of any firearm or ammunition in transit through Solomon Islands to any place outside Solomon Islands, and the importation, exportation, removal, transportation and possession of any such firearm or ammunition under and in accordance with the permission of any such transit licence shall be lawful and shall not constitute an offence under this Act.

Concealing unlawfully imported firearms and ammunition
17 of 1989, s. 8

22. Whoever knowingly conceals any firearm or ammunition imported without a licence shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for two years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.

Minister may prohibit importation or exportation
LN 46A of 1978
17 of 1989, s. 3

23.—(1) The Minister may from time to time by notice prohibit for any specified period either the importation or the exportation of any firearms or ammunition or parts of firearms or ammunition or of particular kinds of firearms or ammunition or parts of firearms or ammunition without a special licence issued by the Principal Licensing Officer which may be subject to such conditions as the Principal Licensing Officer may think fit.

(2) Any such prohibition of exportation may either be absolute or may relate to such place as shall be specified in the notice, and any person who takes or sends any article, the exportation of which is prohibited under subsection (1), out of Solomon Islands with the intention that it shall ultimately reach a particular place either directly or indirectly, shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to export such article to such place.

(3) Any person who imports into or exports from Solomon Islands any firearms or ammunition or parts of firearms or ammunition in contravention of any notice under this section or in breach of the conditions subject to which any special licence is issued, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for one year or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
17 of 1989, s. 8

Penalty in respect of vessel used for illegal importation or exportation
17 of 1989, s. 8

24.—(1) If any vessel is used for the importation or exportation of any firearm or ammunition or parts of firearms or ammunition in contravention of a notice under section 23, or for the receipt or storage of any firearm or ammunition or parts of a firearm or ammunition imported in contravention of any such notice, the owner or master thereof shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of five thousand dollars unless it is proved to the satisfaction of the court that the owner or master was not implicated in the placing of such firearm or ammunition or parts of a firearm or ammunition on board the vessel and that the offence in question was committed without his knowledge, consent or connivance, and the vessel may be detained by order of the court until security has been given for such sum, not exceeding five thousand dollars, as the court may order.

(2) The finding of any firearm or ammunition or part of any firearm or ammunition which is subject to a prohibition under section 23 on board any vessel shall be prima facie evidence that the vessel has been used for the importation or exportation of firearms and ammunition or parts of firearms or ammunition contrary to the provisions of this Act or for the receipt or storage of firearms or ammunition or parts of firearms or ammunition imported contrary thereto.

PART V
MISCELLANEOUS

Prohibition of arms in certain areas
LN 46A of 1978
LN 88 of 1978
17 of 1989, s. 3 & s. 8

25.—(1) Notwithstanding any of the other provisions of this Act, the Minister, if he deems it expedient on account of the prevalence of crimes involving the use of firearms or for any other reason, may by order—

(a) prohibit in any specified area and after a specified date and subject to such exceptions as he may specify, the possession, use or carrying of firearms and ammunition; and

(b) require that all firearms and ammunition within such specified area shall be delivered up to a police officer, before a specified date.

(2) Any person who without reasonable cause, proof whereof shall lie upon him, refuses or neglects to comply with the provisions of such order shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of three hundred dollars or to imprisonment for six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.

(3) Any police officer may seize any firearm or ammunition required to be delivered up in consequence of an order under this section.

(4) Firearms and ammunition delivered up or seized in consequence of an order under this section may be detained as long as such order is in force and for such reasonable period thereafter as may be necessary to enable the owners to collect or re-license them.

Certain weapons prohibited without authority of Minister
LN 46A of 1978
17 of 1989, s. 3 & s. 8

26.—(1) No person without the authority of the Minister shall sell, purchase or have in his possession any firearm which is so designed or adapted that if pressure is applied to the trigger missiles continue to be discharged until pressure is removed from the trigger or the magazine containing the missiles is empty.

(2) Any person who contravenes the provisions of subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for two years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.

(3) Any authority given to any person under this section shall be given in writing and shall be subject to such conditions as may be specified therein, and if that person fails to comply with any such conditions he shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of two hundred dollars or to imprisonment for three months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.

(4) The conditions specified in an authority as aforesaid shall include such conditions as the Minister having regard to the circumstances of each particular case thinks fit to impose for the purpose of securing that the firearm to which the authority relates will not endanger the public safety or the peace.

(5) The Minister may at any time if he thinks fit revoke any authority given by him to any person as aforesaid by notice in writing requiring that person to deliver up the authority to such person as maybe specified in the notice within twenty-one days from the date of the notice, and if that person fails to comply with that requirement he shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of two hundred dollars.

Licences may be refused, cancelled or suspended

27.—(1) Subject to the provisions of the last preceding section, the Principal Licensing Officer and any licensing officer may refuse any application for issue or renewal of any licence without assigning any reason for such refusal, and may for reasons of public safety to be duly recorded by him, or when the licensee has been convicted of an offence under this Act, or on breach of a condition of a licence, or on other prescribed grounds, cancel or suspend the licence.

(2) No licence shall be issued or renewed to any person under the age of twenty-one years.

Penalty for taking in pawn firearms or ammunition
17 of 1989, s. 8

28.—(1) No person shall take in pawn from any other person any firearm or ammunition.

(2) Any person who contravenes the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of three hundred dollars or to imprisonment for six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.

Loss of firearm or permitting another person to use firearm
17 of 1989, s. 6

29. Any person who, being the owner of a firearm or being in lawful possession of a firearm, loses the firearm through recklessness on his part or permits another person to use the firearm without the written approval of the Principal Licensing Officer shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for six months or to both such fine and imprisonment.

Search for firearm or ammunition under warrant

30.—(1) Whenever a Magistrate has reason to believe that any person residing within the limits of his jurisdiction—

(a) has in his possession any firearm or ammunition without a licence or in contravention of the conditions upon which any licence is issued or for any unlawful purpose; or

(b) has in his possession any firearm or ammunition whereof he cannot be left in possession without danger to the public peace,

such Magistrate may by warrant directed to any police officer authorise such police officer—

(i) to enter and search the house or premises occupied by such person or any house or premises wherein the Magistrate has reason to believe that such firearm or ammunition is to be found; and

(ii) to seize and take before a court such firearm or ammunition; and

(iii) to arrest any person found in such house or on such premises whom such police officer has reason to suspect to have committed any offence punishable under this Act,

and the provisions of sections 102, 103, 104 and 105 of the Criminal Procedure Code Act shall apply, mutatis mutandis, in relation to a warrant issued under this section as they apply to a warrant issued under section 101 of the Criminal Procedure Code Act.
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(2) In the execution of such warrant any person to whom such warrant is directed may employ such assistants as may be necessary.

(3) Whoever, upon a search being made under this section, having in his possession or custody any firearm or ammunition or knowing where any firearm or ammunition is concealed, refuses to produce or point out the same to the person making the search, or intentionally conceals the same, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for two years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.

Detention of firearms or ammunition by the police
LN 88 of 1978
17 of 1989, s. 3

31. Any firearm or ammunition produced to a licensing officer in pursuance of any of the provisions of this Act or under any condition in a licence may, in any case in which the licensing officer for reasons of public safety or for other good cause to be duly recorded by him so directs, be detained by the police for any period not exceeding one month:
17 of 1989, s. 8

Provided that the period of one month may be extended to a period not exceeding three months by order of the Minister.

Entry on place where there are firearms or ammunition

32. Any police officer may without a warrant enter and remain on any land or premises other than a dwelling-house at and for such time as may be reasonably necessary to enable him to ascertain whether a person carrying or using or in possession of any firearm or ammunition on such land or premises has a licence in that behalf.

Where licensee under disability

33. If a person licensed to deal in firearms or to import firearms or ammunition dies or becomes insolvent or bankrupt or mentally disordered or otherwise under disability, the person carrying on the business of such licensee shall not be liable to any penalty or forfeiture for acting under the licence during such reasonable time as may be necessary to allow him to make application for a new licence, and such person shall be deemed to be the holder of the said licence for all purposes under this Act and to be liable in the same way as if he were the original holder thereof until a new licence is granted or refused.

Deposit of firearms and ammunition at police station
LN 88 of 1978

34.—(1) Any person whose possession of any firearm or ammunition shall have become unlawful in consequence of the expiry, revocation, cancellation or suspension of a licence shall forthwith deposit such firearm and ammunition at a police station or police armoury.

(2) If the owner of any firearm or ammunition, the possession of which has become unlawful in consequence of the expiry, revocation, cancellation or suspension of a licence, does not, within six months from the date of expiry, revocation or cancellation of such licence or six months from the expiry of the suspension, as the case may be, produce a licence authorising him to possess the same, such firearm or ammunition may be sold (in which event the owner shall be entitled to receive the proceeds of sale less expenses) or otherwise disposed of or destroyed.

(3) Every person licensed to possess firearms and ammunition under this Act shall, upon leaving Solomon Islands unless he exports such firearms and ammunition on so leaving, transfer the same to some person authorised under this Act to take delivery thereof or deposit them for safe keeping at a police station or police armoury.

(4) It shall be a defence for any person charged with unlawfully possessing, using or carrying a firearm or ammunition to prove that he carried or possessed such firearm or ammunition with the intention of depositing it or producing it for inspection at a police station or police armoury, and that he acted reasonably and without unreasonable delay in all the circumstances of the case, and that either—

(a) a licence to possess, use or carry such firearm or ammunition or to import such firearm or ammunition was in force within seven days before the date of the alleged offence; or

(b) that, if such a licence was not in force, it was not through his default.

Disposal of detained firearms and ammunition

35. Firearms and ammunition detained under the provisions of sections 25 and 31, shall, at the expiry of the period of detention, unless previously brought before any court, be returned to the person lawfully authorised to receive the same. If despite reasonable diligence such person cannot be found, or if there is no such person, such firearms and ammunition shall be disposed of in the prescribed manner.

Presumption of possession

36. The occupier of any house or premises in which any firearm or ammunition is found shall be deemed, until the contrary is proved, to be in possession of such firearm or ammunition for the purposes of this Act.

Forfeitures

37. All firearms and ammunition with regard to which any offence shall have been committed against the provisions of this Act or any regulations made thereunder, or any breach of any condition subject to which any licence shall have been granted, may be seized by any licensing officer, or customs officer and, together with the receptacle containing the same, shall be liable to forfeiture by order of the court.

Restrictions on sale, repair, etc., of firearms and ammunition
LN 46A of 1978

38.—(1) No person shall sell, transfer or otherwise part with the possession of any firearm or ammunition to any other person in Solomon Islands, other than a licensed firearms dealer, unless that other person produces a firearm licence or a written authorisation under section 7 (h) authorising him to purchase it or acquire it or shows that he is otherwise entitled to purchase or acquire it without holding such licence or written authorisation.
(2) Every person who sells, lets on hire, gives or loans a firearm or ammunition to any other person in Solomon Islands, other than a licensed firearms dealer, shall, unless that other person shows that he is entitled to purchase or acquire the firearm or ammunition without holding a firearm licence or written authorisation under section 7 (h), comply with any instructions or conditions contained in the licence or written authorisation produced, and in the case of a firearm shall, within ten days from the transaction, notify the licensing officer by whom the licence or written authorisation was issued, of—

(a) the name and address of the purchaser, transferee or other person taking possession of the firearm or ammunition;

(b) the number or reference of such purchaser's, transferee's or other person's firearm licence or written authorisation; and

(c) the prescribed identification mark and number of the firearm or quantity and type of ammunition.

(3) No person shall undertake the repair, test or proof of a firearm or ammunition for any other person in Solomon Islands other than a licensed firearms dealer as such, unless that other person produces or causes to be produced a firearm licence or written authorisation under section 7 (h) authorising him to have possession of the firearm or ammunition, or shows that he is otherwise entitled to have possession of the firearm or ammunition without holding such a licence or written authorisation.

(4) If any person—

(a) contravenes or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this section; or

(b) with a view to purchasing, or acquiring, or procuring the repair, test or proof of, a firearm or ammunition produces a false firearm licence or written authorisation or such a licence or authorisation in which any false entry has been made, or personates a person to whom such a licence or authorisation has been granted, or makes any false statement,

he shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of two hundred dollars or to imprisonment for six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
17 of 1989, s. 8

Security of firearms and ammunition

39.—(1) Every person having in his possession any firearm or ammunition shall keep the same at all times securely and in safe custody and shall take all reasonable precautions to ensure that such firearm or ammunition is not lost or stolen and is not at any time available to any person not lawfully entitled to possess the same.

(2) Any person who fails to comply with any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of two hundred dollars or to imprisonment for six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
17 of 1989, s. 8

Loss of firearms or ammunition to be reported
17 of 1989, s. 8

40. Any person having possession of a firearm or ammunition, whether or not he holds a firearm licence therefor, shall, if such firearm or ammunition is lost, stolen or destroyed, report such loss, theft or destruction as soon as possible after its occurrence to a licensing officer or to the police officer in charge of the nearest police station, and if he fails to do so, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of three hundred dollars or to imprisonment for six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.

Carrying firearm while drunk or disorderly

41. Any person who is drunk, or who behaves in a disorderly manner, while carrying a firearm shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for twelve months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.

Threatening violence with firearm
17 of 1989, s. 7

42. Any person who, being the owner or having possession of a firearm, with intent to intimidate another person to do or to refrain from doing any act threatens by word of mouth or any other conduct to harm that other person, or any other person whosoever, with the use of the firearm is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for two years or to both such fine and imprisonment.

Power to detain and forfeit firearms
17 of 1989, s. 7

43.—(1) Any police officer who has reason to believe that a person has threatened another person in contravention of section 42 may, without warrant, search the premises of the person who made the threat and take possession of any firearms which he may find on the premises.

(2) Any person who obstructs or hinders a police officer from exercising his powers under subsection (1) is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for two years or to both such fine and imprisonment.

(3) Where a person is convicted of an offence under subsection (1), the court may order that any firearm found on the person's premises and taken possession of under that subsection be forfeited to the Crown.

Discharging firearm in public place
17 of 1989, s. 7

44. Any person who, without reasonable excuse, (proof of which lies on him) discharges a firearm in a public place or in any place situated within the boundaries of a town is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of two hundred dollars or to imprisonment for six months or to both such fine and imprisonment.

Appeals
17 of 1989, s. 3

45. Any person aggrieved by any condition of a licence granted by the Principal Licensing Officer or any licensing officer under this Act, or by the variation, revocation, cancellation or suspension of, or the refusal to grant or vary, any licence under this Act, by such an officer, may within fourteen days of being notified of such condition, variation, revocation, cancellation, suspension or refusal, appeal in writing to the Minister, and the Minister's decision thereon shall be final and shall not be questioned in any proceedings whatsoever.

General penalty
17 of 1989, s. 8

46. Any person who is guilty of any offence against the provisions of this Act or any regulations made thereunder for which no penalty is otherwise expressly provided shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars.

Liability of principal and agent

47.—(1) Any person licensed under this Act who could be liable under the provisions of this Act or any regulations made thereunder to any punishment, penalty or forfeiture for any act, omission, neglect or default, shall be liable to the same punishment, penalty or forfeiture for every such act, omission, neglect or default of any agent or servant employed by him in the course of his business as such licensed person if such act, omission, neglect or default be committed by such agent or servant in the course of his employment by such licensed person.

(2) Any agent or servant employed by a person licensed under this Act in the course of his business as such licensed person shall also be liable to every punishment, penalty or forfeiture prescribed by this Act or by any regulations made thereunder for such acts, omissions, neglects or defaults as fully and effectually as if such agent or servant had been the person licensed.

Persons conveying firearms or ammunition may be apprehended without warrant

48.—(1) If any person is found carrying or conveying any firearms or ammunition in such a manner or under such circumstances as to afford reasonable grounds for suspicion that the same may be used for any unlawful purpose dangerous to the public peace, any person may without warrant apprehend such person so found and detain him in custody.

(2) Any person apprehended without a warrant shall be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of sections 22 and 23 of the Criminal Procedure Code Act.
Cap. 7

Arrest by police without warrant

49. Any police officer may arrest without warrant any person found committing or attempting to commit or employing, aiding or assisting any person to commit, or whom he reasonably suspects of having committed any offence against, or punishable under, any of the following provisions of this Act, namely, sections 4, 5, 9 (2), 11 (1), 12, 14, 22, 23 (3), 25 (2), 26 (2) and 41.

Power to stop and search for firearms and ammunition in the street

50. It shall be lawful for any police officer to stop and to search for firearms or ammunition any person whom he may find in any street or other public place at any hour of the day or night who acts in a suspicious manner or whom he may suspect of having any firearms or ammunition in his possession.

Presumption

51. Every person who is proved to have had in his possession or under his control anything whatever containing any firearm or ammunition shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to have been in possession of such firearm or ammunition.

Exemption of ship and aircraft signalling equipment, etc.

52. Nothing in this Act contained shall apply to rescue or signalling apparatus or the ammunition therefor carried by any ship or aircraft in pursuance of any law or rule applying thereto, or intended for such use.

Special provision relating to servants of the Crown

53. Notwithstanding any rule of law whereunder the provisions of this Act do not bind the Crown, the provisions of sections 38, 39 and 40 shall apply to persons in the service of the Crown in their capacity and in the course of their duties as such.

Provisions of this Act to be additional to other Acts
LN 46A of 1978

54. The provisions of this Act shall be in addition to and not in derogation of the provisions of any other law for the time being in force in Solomon Islands relating to the manufacture, sale, transfer, purchase, acquisition, possession, use, storage, carriage, transportation, importation or exportation of firearms, ammunition or explosives.

Regulations
17 of 1989,s. 3

55. The Minister may from time to time make regulations for the better carrying out of the provisions and purposes of this Act, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, for any of the following purposes that is to say—

(a) to prescribe the form of all licences and other documents required under this Act;

(b) to provide for the marking of firearms for the possession of which a licence is issued;

(c) to regulate the manner in which applications for licences shall be made;

(d) to regulate the conditions subject to which licences shall be granted, and the issue of licences generally and the grounds on which they may be suspended or cancelled;

(e) to provide for the furnishing of information in respect of firearms and ammunition by persons in possession thereof;

(f) to prescribe the fees to be paid for anything done, or any licence or document issued or granted under this Act and to direct by whom and in what manner such fees are to be collected and accounted for;

(g) to regulate the disposition, destruction or sale of articles forfeited, detained or deposited under the provisions of this Act;

(h) to regulate the import, export, acquisition, possession, transfer and use of air guns, air rifles and air pistols and ammunition therefor;

(i) to provide for the deposit for safe custody of firearms and ammunition with the police, for the fees to be paid therefor, for the exemption of such firearms from the licensing requirements of this Act, and for the sale, destruction or other disposal of such firearms in circumstances in which such sale, destruction or disposal may be reasonable,

and may restrict the operation of any such regulations to particular areas.

Power to exempt
17 of 1989, s. 3

56. The Minister may from time to time by notice exempt any firearms or ammunition or classes of firearms or ammunition within Solomon Islands or within any part of Solomon Islands from the operation of all or any of the provisions of this Act.

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CHAPTER 80
FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION

Subsidiary Legislation

DESIGNATION OF PRINCIPAL LICENSING OFFICER

(Section 3 (1))

[14th October 1992]

The Commissioner of Police has been designated to be the Principal Licensing Officer for the purposes of the Act.
LN 117/1992

APPOINTMENT OF LICENSING OFFICERS

(Section 3 (1))

The Officer-in-Charge of each of the Police Stations at Honiara, Auki and Kira Kira has been appointed to be a Licensing Officer for the purposes of the Act.
LN 96/1970

NOTICE

(Section 18)

[3rd April 1968]

Firearms and ammunition shall not be imported into or exported from Solomon Islands except at the following ports and places—

1. Gizo Port
2. Henderson Field (Honiara)
3. Honiara Port
4. Kukum Aerodrome (Honiara)
5. Kira Kira Port and Boarding Station
6. Munda Aerdrome
7. Yandina Aerodrome
8. Yandina Port.

LN 39/1968

NOTICE

(Section 23(1))

[20th May 1968]

The importation is prohibited of the following firearms and ammunition without a special licence issued by the Principal Licensing Officer, that is to say—

(a) automatic firearms, that is firearms which are so designed or adapted that if pressure is applied to the trigger, missiles continue to be discharged until pressure is removed from the trigger or the magazine containing the missiles is empty;

(b) semi-automatic firearms, that is firearms other than automatic firearms as specified in paragraph (1), which when fired eject the spent round and refill the breech;

(c) pistols and revolvers of all types; and

(d) firearms and ammunition of the following calibres—

.300, .303, .38 and .45 inches, and 7.62 and 9 millimetres.
LN 54/1968

___________________________

THE FIREARMS, AMMUNITION AND AIR WEAPONS REGULATIONS

(Section 55)

[1st July 1968]

LN 136/1967
LN 27/1986

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Firearms, Ammunition and Air Weapons Regulations.

Fees

2. The fees specified in the third column of the First Schedule to these Regulations shall be payable in respect of the matters specified in relation thereto in the second column of that Schedule.
First Schedule

Forms

3. The Forms set out in the Second Schedule to these Regulations shall be used for the relevant purposes of the Act and these Regulations.
Second Schedule

Conditions of firearm licence

4. Every firearm licence shall be subject to the following conditions—

(a) that the holder thereof shall obey all lawful orders of any police officer or licensing officer relating to the licence or any firearm or ammunition possessed or acquired thereunder and shall produce such licence, firearm or ammunition to such officer on demand; and

(b) that such firearm or ammunition as aforesaid shall not be used for any unlawful purpose.

Application for renewal of firearm licence

5. Except where a licensing officer otherwise requires, an application for renewal may be made orally, and for the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that a licensing officer may require any application for renewal of a firearm licence to be made in Form 1 in the Second Schedule.

Lost licences

6. Any person who, having obtained a new licence under section 10 of the Act in lieu of a licence that he has lost, finds such lost licence, shall within ten days of finding the licence, surrender it to a licensing officer or police officer.

Voluntary deposit of firearms and ammunition in police armouries

7.—(1) Any person in lawful possession of a firearm or ammunition may deposit such firearm or ammunition in a police armoury for safe custody.

(2) No licence under the Act shall be required in respect of such firearm or ammunition while it is so deposited.

(3) It shall be the duty of the officer in charge of the armoury to take reasonable care of all firearms and ammunition so deposited, but notwithstanding any breach of such duty or the negligence of any police officer or otherwise howsoever, no action shall lie against the Government or any police officer in respect of the loss of or any damage to any firearm or ammunition so deposited.

Disposal of unclaimed firearms, etc

8.—(1) If any police officer in charge of an armoury considers any ammunition deposited under the last preceding regulation to be in an unsafe condition, he may cause such ammunition to be destroyed or otherwise disposed of.

(2) If any police officer of or above the rank of Assistant Superintendent is satisfied that any firearm or ammunition deposited under the last preceding regulation has been abandoned, or that despite reasonable diligence a person lawfully authorised to receive the same cannot be found, he may, one month after publishing notice of his intention so to do, cause the same to be sold or otherwise disposed of and the proceeds of any such sale shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.

(3) Any firearm or ammunition authorised to be disposed of under section 35 of the Act shall be disposed of in the manner provided by the last preceding paragraph.

Air weapons

9.—(1) No person shall import any air weapon into Solomon Islands without a permit issued by the Principal Licensing Officer authorising such importation.

(2) No person other than a licensed firearms dealer or licensed air weapons dealer shall by way of trade or business sell, transfer or expose for sale any air weapon nor keep or have in his possession any air weapon for any such purpose.

(3) No person other than a licensed firearms dealer or licensed air weapons dealer shall purchase, acquire, or have in his possession an air weapon except under and in accordance with the terms and conditions of a valid air weapon licence authorising him so to do issued by a licensing officer.

(4) No person shall sell, transfer or otherwise part with the possession of any air weapon to any person other than a licensed firearms dealer, unless that other person produces a valid air weapon licence authorising him to possess it.

(5) No air weapon licence shall be issued to any person under the age of sixteen years.

(6) The Principal Licensing Officer may, upon application therefor and payment of the prescribed fee, issue in the prescribed form a licence to import air weapons.

(7) The Principal Licensing Officer may, upon application therefor and payment of the prescribed fee, issue in such form as he thinks fit, a licence to deal in air weapons subject to such terms and conditions as he shall specify.

(8) A licensing officer may, upon application therefor and payment of the prescribed fee, issue an air weapon licence in the prescribed form subject to such terms and conditions as he shall specify.

(9) The provisions of sections 11 (5), 11 (6), 12, 16, 19, 21, 22, 27, 30, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 56 of the Act shall apply mutatis mutandis to air weapons as they apply to firearms.

(10) In these Regulations "air weapon" means an air gun, air rifle and an air pistol; and "licensed air weapons dealer" means the holder of a valid licence to deal in air weapons issued under paragraph (7).

Prescribed identification numbers

10. For the purposes of the Act and these Regulations a prescribed identification number shall consist of any one of the following four letters, C, E, M or W, followed by a number not exceeding four digits, to be allotted in each case by a licensing officer; and such prescribed identification number may be referred to as the S.I. identification number, and shall be marked by being die stamped upon the butt or stock of a firearm to the satisfaction of a licensing officer.

Certain firearms exempted from Solomon Islands identification marking requirements

11. Every firearm which, in the opinion of a licensing officer, it is not practicable or reasonable to mark in the prescribed manner, is hereby exempted from the requirements of section 8(2) of the Act.

Dealers not to sell firearms without identification marks unless exempted

12. No dealer shall sell or otherwise transfer any firearm not exempted under regulation 11 unless it is marked with an S.I. identification number in accordance with regulation 10.

Penalty

13. Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of regulations 6, 9 or 12 or any of the provisions of the Act as applied by regulation 9 (9), shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of fifty dollars or to imprisonment for two months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.

FIRST SCHEDULE
LN 27/1986

(Regulation 2)

Fees.

Section or
Regulation								$

s. 6(2)		Grant/renewal of firearm licence			$20.00

s. 6(6)		Variation of firearm licence on application		$10.00

s. 10		Replacement of lost licence				$10.00

s. 11(2)	Grant/renewal of Dealer's licence			$500.00

s. 15(2)	Import licence for firearm/ammunition		$10.00

s. 15(5)	Transport of firearms from port of entry to
other ports						$10.00 plus
actual cost

s. 21		Grant/renewal of transit licence			$10.00

reg. 9(6)	Grant/renewal of air weapons import permit		$10.00

reg. 9(7)	Grant/renewal of air weapons dealers licence	$500.00

reg. 9(8)	Grant/renewal of air weapons licence			$20.00

SECOND SCHEDULE

(Regulation 3.)

FORM 1

Obverse

SOLOMON ISLANDS

THE FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION ACT AND REGULATIONS

s. 6., r. 3.

Application for a Firearm Licence.

1. Name in full

2.	(a)	Address

(b)	Length of period resident at address

3. Age

4. Nationality

5. Occupation

6. Reason for requiring the firearm and ammunition 

7. Description of firearm and ammunition for which licence required

8.	(a)	Firearms possessed at date of application

(b)	Ammunition—

Quantity 	Calibre
and Type

(i)	Possessed at date of application	...............................

(ii)	Total amount desired to be 
purchased or acquired in any 
one year				................................

(iii)	Maximum amount desired to be
possessed at any one time		................................

9.	(a)	Whether a licence or permit has previously been held, or applied for by applicant. If so, give dates of all previous applications

(b)	Date and place of issue of any licence or permit to possess firearms or ammunition held during previous 12 months

Declaration

10. I hereby apply for a licence in respect of the firearm and ammunition specified above, and I declare that the statements made above are true and complete in all respects.

Date 		Signature

Reverse.

For Official Use.

This application was lodged at	(office)
on (date)

RECOMMENDED/NOT RECOMMENDED

Reasons for non-recommendation

Signature
Licensing Officer

Central Firearms Registry

Licence	APPROVED/NOT APPROVED

AMMUNITION—

(i)	maximum amount authorised to be possessed at any one time—
* ..............................

(ii)	total amount to be purchased in each year—
* ..............................
*State quantity, type and calibre

Date..............................................	Signed
Principal Licensing Officer

Licence Issued	

Fee 		Solomon Islands Identification
G.T.R. No. 		Number
Date 		Signed
Licensing Officer

FORM 2

s. 6., r. 3.

Page 1.

SOLOMON ISLANDS

Firearms and Ammunition Licence

No. 	.....................

Name 
(Block letters)

Village/Town

Province

is hereby authorised to possess the firearm and ammunition described hereunder—

(a)	firearm—

(i)	Type

(ii)	Calibre 

(iii)	Maker's Name 

(iv)	Maker's Number

(v)	S.I. Identification No. 

(b)	ammunition—

(i)	maximum amount authorised to be possessed at any one time—

*

(ii)	total amount authorised to be purchased in each year, commencing 1st January, 19

*

*State quantity, type and calibre.

Page 2.

The following conditions shall be observed by the holder of this licence—

Every person selling, letting on hire, giving or lending a firearm to the holder of this licence must notify the Licensing Officer under section 38(2) of the Firearms and Ammunition Act.

Every person selling or supplying ammunition to the holder of this licence must record all such transactions in the schedule of purchases.

This licence shall continue in force until the 31st December, 19 	 unless previously revoked or cancelled.

Date 		Signature 	
Licensing Officer

Fee
G.T.R. No.

Pages 3 to 7.

Renewal

This licence is hereby renewed and is valid until the 31st December, 
19 ..... , unless previously revoked or cancelled.

S.I. Identification number ...........................

Date 		Signature
Licensing Officer

Fee
G.T.R. No.
Conditions, variations, etc., 

Pages 8 to 20

Ammunition

Date	Quantity	Type	From Whom purchased or obtained	Signature of person from whom purchased or obtained

FORM 3

SOLOMON ISLANDS

THE FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION ACT AND REGULATIONS

s. 11(2), r. 3.

Firearms and Ammunition Dealer's Licence

This licence authorises ............................ of …………………………………………
in Solomon Islands or his servants in the ordinary course of his business as a licensed firearms and ammunition dealer—

(a)	to assemble, clean, repair, test or approve any firearm or ammunition;

(b)	to manufacture any component part of a firearm or ammunition;

(c)	to sell, transfer or expose for sale any firearm or ammunition;

(d)	to keep or have in their possession any firearm or ammunition for any of the aforesaid purposes 

at the following place—

This licence is subject to the following conditions—

(i)	that the holder of such licence or his servants employed in the ordinary course of business of such holder as a licensed firearms and ammunition dealer, shall observe the provisions of the Act and of any Regulations made thereunder;	

(ii)	that the holder of such licence or his servants employed as aforesaid shall not part with possession of any firearm or ammunition except to a person lawfully entitled to possess the same;

(iii)	that the holder of such licence or his servants employed as aforesaid shall obey all lawful orders of any police officer relating to any firearm or ammunition in their possession;

(iv)	that any firearm and ammunition in the possession of the holder of such licence shall not be used for any unlawful purpose;

(v)	that the holder of such licence shall ensure that the proper records required under the Act are maintained by him in the prescribed form;

(vi)	Additional conditions

This licence shall continue in force until 31st December, 19	unless previously revoked or cancelled.

Issued this ....................... day of ......................... ,19, ...... at 
Fee Paid

G.T.R. No. 	........................
Principal Licensing Officer

FORM 6.

SOLOMON ISLANDS

THE FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION ACT AND REGULATIONS

s. 15 (2), r. 3.

Permit to Import Firearms and Ammunition.

No. 

Name
(in full)

Address

is hereby licensed to import into Solomon Islands firearms and ammunition of the number and description hereunder specified within .................... months from the date hereof.

No.	Description	Calibre		Remarks

Issued at Honiara this ............... day of ............... , 19 .......

Fee:

Signed
Principal Licensing Officer

FORM 7.

s. 17, r. 3.

SOLOMON ISLANDS

THE FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION ACT AND REGULATIONS

Licence to Export Firearms and Ammunition

No. 

Name in full
of

is hereby authorised to export from Solomon Islands to
firearms and ammunition of the number and description
hereunder specified within ................... days from the date
hereof.
(Description of firearms and ammunition)

Issued this ............ day of ...................... , 19 ........

Place ...................

Fee:

Principal Licensing Officer.

FORM 8

SOLOMON ISLANDS

THE FIREARMS, AMMUNITION AND AIR WEAPONS REGULATIONS

rr. 3 and 9 (6).

Licence to Import Air Weapons

No.

Name
(in full)

Address 

is hereby licensed to import into Solomon Islands air weapons of the number and description hereunder specified within
(months) from the date hereof.

No.	Description		Remarks

Issued at Honiara this .......................... day of ………………. ,19 ....

Signed
Principal Licensing Officer.

FORM 9

Obverse

SOLOMON ISLANDS

THE FIREARMS, AMMUNITION AND AIR WEAPONS REGULATIONS

rr. 3 and 9 (8).

Air Weapons Licence.	

No.

This licence authorises

of
to possess the air weapon hereunder specified.

Make of Weapon

Model

Maker's Number

Calibre (if known)

This licence shall continue in force until the 31st December, 19	, 
unless previously revoked or cancelled.

Issued this ........................... day of .......................... , 19 .....

Place of issue ..........................

Fee:

G.T.R. No		Signed 
Licensing Officer 

NOTE—Renewals to be entered overleaf.

Reverse

No.

Renewals

This licence in respect of the air weapon described overleaf is hereby renewed and is valid until 31st December, 19 ...... , unless previously revoked or cancelled.

Date 		Signature
Fee:	Licensing Officer

G.T.R. No.

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