Firearms (Authorisation of Rifle or Pistol Shooting Ranges) Regulations 2011 signed

Sparks

Received by email today:

Gentlemen,

I would like to take this opportunity to inform you that the Minister for
Justice, Equality and Defence today signed a Statutory Instrument entitled
Firearms (Authorisation of Rifle or Pistol Shooting Ranges) Regulations
2011. Please note that the signed document will shortly be available from
Government Publications Office and will also appear on
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/ in the near future.

The purpose of this regulation is to give effect to measures introduced in
the Criminal Justice Act 2006 for the authorisation of rifle and pistol
shooting ranges.

The regulations draw a distinction between the certification of a shooting
range and the authorisation of a shooting range. The former is supplied by
the Firearms Range Inspector in the Department of Justice and Equality and
is essentially related to the safe design, construction and maintenance of
the range; whilst the latter is supplied by the Commissioner of An Garda
Síochána.

A range owner or operator must have a firearms range certificate before
applying for a range authorisation. However, acquisition of the firearms
range certificate does not guarantee the acquisition of a range
authorisation.

There is no charge levied for the firearms range certificate. The
application for a range authorisation must be accompanied by a fee
(currently €1,000).

If I can provide any further information, please contact me.

Regards

John Guinane
Firearms Range Inspector
Department of Justice and Equality
92-94 St Stephen's Green
Dublin 2
Ireland

The SI isn't up on the website yet, but we'll link to it here when it is.

Cass

Excellent news.:)

Grizzly 45

About time and all!!!:p

bazza888

whys this good news?whats it mean?

Sparks

And here's the SI itself.