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Limited Licence?

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  • 06-02-2006 12:14pm
    #1
    Rew
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 8,679 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Whats the differance between a limited and unlimited licence?


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    #2
    Vegeta
    Registered Users Posts: 11,393 ✭✭✭✭Vegeta


    unlimited means you can hunt game birds and limited means its for target shooting or vermin I think. Not 100% but i'm sure Sparks or civdef will clear it up


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    Umiq88
    Registered Users Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭Umiq88


    and unlimited is 100 rounds standard and limited is 25 or 50 i think


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    civdef
    Registered Users Posts: 3,057 ✭✭✭civdef


    Unlimited and limited refer only to firearms certificates for shotguns. A limited cert is for use by a landowner or his/her agent for vermin control. Only one limited licence can be held per piece of land. A maximum limit of 25 rounds of ammunition is usually set for these licences.
    FIREARMS ACT, 1964 SECTION 12

    1964 1 12
    Limited use of shot-gun. 12.—(1) Where the firearm described in a firearm certificate is a shot-gun, the certificate may be expressed, and in such case shall operate, to authorise the use of the gun only for killing animals or birds other than game by the person to whom the certificate is granted either (as may be expressed in the certificate)—

    (a) on land occupied by him, or
    (b) on land occupied by another person.
    (2) A certificate in the form referred to in subsection (1) of this section (in this section referred to as a limited certificate) relating to land occupied by a person other than the person to whom the certificate is granted shall not be granted unless the occupier of the land has given the applicant for the certificate a nomination in writing for holding the certificate.

    (3) A limited certificate relating to any land shall not be granted in respect of any period if there is already in force in respect of that period a limited certificate relating to that land.

    (4) A limited certificate shall not be granted unless the whole of the land to which it would relate is occupied by the same person.

    (5) Where a nomination referred to in subsection (2) of this section is revoked, the limited certificate to which it related shall not, if it is then in force, be capable of being renewed.



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    Vegeta
    Registered Users Posts: 11,393 ✭✭✭✭Vegeta


    I was kinda nearly almost but not quite right!


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    Sputnik
    Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭Sputnik


    So it has no bearing on rifles at all? Well I guess the Garda I was talking to last week didn't know what he was on about then. No shock there I suppose.


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    Keelan
    Registered Users Posts: 408 ✭✭Keelan


    What does Unlimited with indorcement mean then?
    Thanks.


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    Clare gunner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,843 ✭✭✭Clare gunner


    Means you have some sort of restriction on the liscense.Ask your FAO for an explanation.


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