30Ch. 27
Firearms Act 1968
Part IV
- “prohibited weapon” and “prohibited ammunition” have the meanings assigned to them by section 5(2) of this Act;
- “public place” includes any highway and any other premises or place to which at the material time the public have or are permitted to have access, whether on payment or otherwise;
- “registered”, in relation to a firearms dealer, means registered either—
- (a) in Great Britain, under section 33 of this Act, or
- (b) in Northern Ireland, under section 8 of the 1920 c. 43.Firearms Act 1920 or any enactment of the Parliament of Northern Ireland amending or substituted for that section,
- and references to “the register”, “registration” and a “certificate of registration” shall be construed accordingly, except in section 40;
- “shot gun” has the meaning assigned to it by section 1(3)(a) of this Act and, in sections 3(1) and 45(2) of this Act and in the definition of “firearms dealer” includes any component part of a shot gun and any accessory to a shot gun designed or adapted to diminish the noise or flash caused by firing the gun;
- “slaughtering instrument” means a firearm which is specially designed or adapted for the instantaneous slaughter of animals or for the instantaneous stunning of animals with a view to slaughtering them; and
- “transfer” includes let on hire, give, lend and part with possession, and "transferee" and "transferor" shall be construed accordingly.
(5) The definitions in subsections (1) to (3) above apply to the provisions of this Act except where the context otherwise requires.
(6) For purposes of this Act—
- (a) 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; and
- (b) a shot gun or an air weapon shall be deemed to be loaded if there is ammunition in the chamber or barrel or in any magazine or other device which is in such a position that the ammunition can be fed into the chamber or barrel by the manual or automatic operation of some part of the gun or weapon.
