Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009

Amendment to section 2 of Principal Act.

26.— Section 2 (as amended by the Act of 1964, the Firearms (Proofing) Act 1968 , the Firearms Act 1971 , the Act of 2006 and the Criminal Justice Act 2007 ) of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) in subsection (4) by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (g):

“(g) the possession, use or carriage of a firearm, within the meaning of paragraph (h) of section 1, or of ammunition therefor for the purpose of being used as a starting gun or blank firing gun by a person who stands authorised in that behalf under this section,”,

and

(b) in subsection (6) by the deletion of “(d),”.