6Restriction on authority conferred by category H licence

6 Restriction on authority conferred by category H licence

6 Restriction on authority conferred by category H licence

(1) The genuine reason of business or employment does not, in relation to a category H licence or an application for such a licence, include business or employment that constitutes any other genuine reason.

Note.

Section 16 of the Act provides that a category H licence must not be issued unless the genuine reason established by the applicant is sport/target shooting, business or employment or firearms collection. The genuine reasons specified in section 12 of the Act are each mutually exclusive.

(2) Accordingly, a category H licence issued to a person who has established business or employment as the genuine reason for being issued with the licence does not authorise the possession or use of a registered pistol for a purpose that is a genuine reason other than business or employment.

Note.

For example, the licensee is not authorised to use the pistol for the purposes of—

(a) hunting (including the control or suppression of vermin or pest animals) or fishing, or

(b) farming or grazing activities (including the destruction of diseased or injured animals).