95Discharge of firearms

95 Discharge of firearms

95 Discharge of firearms

(1) A person must not, except in accordance with the approval of the Board, discharge a firearm on the Island.

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

(2) This clause does not apply to—

(a) a person in the exercise of his or her functions as a police officer, or

(b) a person in the exercise of his or her functions as a member of the armed forces of the Commonwealth, or of any government that is allied or associated with the Commonwealth in any war or joint military exercise in which the Commonwealth is engaged, or

(c) a person carrying out lawful activities on land—

(i) that the person lawfully occupies under the Act, or

(ii) on to which the person has entered with the consent of a person who lawfully occupies the land under the Act.