Clause 26 - Age limits for purchase etc. of air weapons
Violent Crime Reduction Bill
3:45 pm
Jonathan Djanogly (Shadow Solicitor General (Also Assists Shadow Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs), (Assist the Home Affairs Team); Huntingdon, Conservative)
I beg to move amendment No. 192, in clause 26, page 28, line 30, at end insert—
‘(2)For section 1(3)(b) (Requirement of firearm certificate), substitute—
“(b)an air weapon (that is to say an air rifle, air gun or air pistol with a muzzle energy in excess of 4 joules which does not fall within section 5(1) and which is not of a type declared by rules made by the Secretary of State under section 53 of this Act to be especially dangerous)”.
(3)For the purposes of this Act, an air weapon shall have the meaning assigned to it by section 1(3)(b) of the 1968 Act.’.