Firearms Act (S.C. 1995, c. 39)

Marginal note:Licences and authorizations

68. A chief firearms officer shall refuse to issue a licence if the applicant is not eligible to hold one and may refuse to issue an authorization to carry or authorization to transport for any good and sufficient reason.

Marginal note:Registration certificates

69. The Registrar may refuse to issue a registration certificate, authorization to export or authorization to import for any good and sufficient reason including, in the case of an application for a registration certificate, where the applicant is not eligible to hold a registration certificate.

Marginal note:Revocation of licence or authorization

• 70. (1) A chief firearms officer may revoke a licence, an authorization to carry or an authorization to transport for any good and sufficient reason including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing,

  • (a) where the holder of the licence or authorization

    • (i) is no longer or never was eligible to hold the licence or authorization,

    • (ii) contravenes any condition attached to the licence or authorization, or

    • (iii) has been convicted or discharged under section 730 of the Criminal Code of an offence referred to in paragraph 5(2)(a); or

  • (b) where, in the case of a business, a person who stands in a prescribed relationship to the business has been convicted or discharged under section 730 of the Criminal Code of any such offence.

• Marginal note:Registrar

  (2) The Registrar may revoke an authorization to export or authorization to import for any good and sufficient reason.

Marginal note:Revocation of registration certificate

• 71. (1) The Registrar

  • (a) may revoke a registration certificate for a prohibited firearm or a restricted firearm for any good and sufficient reason; and

  • (b) shall revoke a registration certificate for a firearm held by an individual where the Registrar is informed by a chief firearms officer under section 67 that the firearm is not being used for a purpose described in section 28.

• Marginal note:Automatic revocation of registration certificate

  (2) A registration certificate for a prohibited firearm referred to in subsection 12(3) (pre-August 1, 1992 converted automatic firearms) is automatically revoked on the change of any alteration in the prohibited firearm that was described in the application for the registration certificate.