Firearms Act (S.C. 1995, c. 39)

Marginal note:Applications

• 54 (1) A licence, registration certificate or authorization, other than an authorization referred to in subsection 19(2.1), (2.2) or (2.3), may be issued only on application made in the prescribed form — which form may be in writing or electronic — or in the prescribed manner. The application must set out the prescribed information and be accompanied by payment of the prescribed fees.

• Marginal note:To whom made

  (2) An application for a licence, registration certificate or authorization must be made to

  • (a) a chief firearms officer, in the case of a licence, an authorization to carry referred to in paragraph 20(b) or an authorization to transport;

  • (a.1) the Commissioner, in the case of an authorization to carry referred to in paragraph 20(a); or

  • (b) the Registrar, in the case of a registration certificate, an authorization to export or an authorization to import.

• Marginal note:Pre-commencement restricted firearms and handguns

  (3) An individual who, on the commencement day, possesses one or more restricted firearms or one or more handguns referred to in subsection 12(6.1) (pre-December 1, 1998 handguns) must specify, in any application for a licence authorizing the individual to possess restricted firearms or handguns that are so referred to,

  • (a) except in the case of a firearm described in paragraph (b), for which purpose described in section 28 the individual wishes to continue to possess restricted firearms or handguns that are so referred to; and

  • (b) for which of those firearms was a registration certificate under the former Act issued because they were relics, were of value as a curiosity or rarity or were valued as a memento, remembrance or souvenir.